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Information Literacy in Higher Education : A Sociocultural Perspective by Fabiola Cabra-Torres, Gloria Patricia Marciales Vivas, Harold Castañeda-Peña, Jorge Winston Barbosa-Chacón, Leonardo Melo González, Oscar Gilberto Hernández Salamanca is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book presents an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to study information literacy in higher education contexts. While mainstream studies tend to see information literacy as a technical and universal process, this book proposes a theoretical and methodological framework to study information literacy from a sociocultural perspective, highlighting the importance of the social and cultural contexts in which information literacy develops. This situated approach demands that research data must be analysed in relation to the contexts in which they emerge, so the book proposes a research method based on the study of personal histories and stories, learning situations and intersubjective relationships to characterize the different information profiles of different information users.  Adopting a multidisciplinary approach that combines contributions from educational research, psychology and information sciences, the authors first present a theoretical discussion to argue in favor of the sociocultural paradigm to study information literacy, then present their methodological proposal to observe informational competencies among higher education students, and finally present

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Author

Fabiola Cabra-Torres, Gloria Patricia Marciales Vivas, Harold Castañeda-Peña, Jorge Winston Barbosa-Chacón, Leonardo Melo González, Oscar Gilberto Hernández Salamanca

Publisher

Springer International Publishing;Springer

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030500146

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Education, Computer Science