Pathways into Information Literacy and Communities of Practice: Teaching Approaches and Case Studies

Pathways into Information Literacy and Communities of Practice: Teaching Approaches and Case Studies considers the specific information literacy needs of communities of practice. As such, the book fills a gap in the literature, which has treated information literacy extensively, but has not applied it to the area of communities of practice. Since every community of practice generates, seeks, retrieves, and uses resources and sources related to the cognitive structure being researched or studied, and the tasks being performed, the need arises to undertake studies focused on real user communities, especially at a graduate level.

This edited collection presents contributions from an international perspective on this key topic in library and information science. Contributions are arranged into two sections, the first exploring teaching and learning processes, and the second presenting case studies in communities of practice, including, but not limited to, health, research environments, college students, and higher education.

Focuses on communities of practice, including health, research, and higher education and their distinct information needsIncludes chapters from an international and experienced set of contributorsPresents an interdisciplinary perspective on the topic

Part I: Perspectives on Information Literacy Teaching

Chapter 1. Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Context and Practice

Chapter 2. Inquiry Learning: A Pedagogical and Curriculum Framework for Information Literacy

Chapter 3. Information Literacy and Flipped Learning

Chapter 4. Inclusion of Information Literacy in the Curriculum Through Learning Communities and Action Research

Chapter 5. The Scoring Rubric for Information Literacy as a Tool for Learning

Part II: On Information Literacy Programs

Chapter 6. The Relevance of Communicative Competence in the Context of Information Literacy Programs

Chapter 7. Information Culture and Information Literacy as a Scientific Direction and a Field of Educational Activities in Russia

Part III: Practicing Information Literacy: Academic and Scholar Contexts

Chapter 8. Toward a Community of Epistemological Practice: A Case Study of Adult Returners to Higher Education

Chapter 9. Information Literacy Requirements for Open Science