Information literacy
Subtitle: a review of the research : a guide for practitioners and researchers
By: David V. Loertscher, Blanche Woolls
Contributors: Woolls, Blanche
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Hi Willow Research and Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Jose, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Libraries and education; Libraries and students; School libraries; Information services; User education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-165) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the second edition; title: Preface to the first edition; title: Chapter one: Introduction to information literacy; title: Chapter two: Stages of the research process: Questions and wonders; title: Finds and sorts; title: Consumes and absorbs; title: Thinks and creates; title: Summarizes and concludes; title: Communicates; title: Reflects on process and product; title: Chapter three: Issues in information literacy: Information overload; title: Attitudes and motivation; title: Working with specific groups of students; title: Conflict between behaviorist and constructivist approaches; title: Standards movement and inquiry; title: Adult expertise and information literacy; title: Will teachers teach information literacy?; title: Consuming and absorbing what?; title: Academic achievement and information literacy; title: Cut and clip mentality: or, the ethical use of information; title: Chapter four: promising techniques: Cooperative learning; title: Cultivating habits of mind; title: Constructivist strategies; title: Integration of information skills into content instruction; title: Helping students and teachers develop their own; title: Research model; title: Collaborating with the I-search process; title: Using the schedule and time to advantage; title: Building a collaborative planning role; title: Teaching text structure; title: Concept mapping; title: Pacing learners through the research process; title: Providing a high-quality information environment; title: Doing your own action research; title: Principal's role in information literacy; title: Chapter five: Good ideas and resources for keeping current: Keeping current; title: Helps for teachers and library media specialists; title: Helps for parents; title: Resources for steps of the research process for young people; title: Chapter six: For the researcher: Models of information literacy-a timeline; title: Research reviews; title: Related models and applications; title: Index to citations; title: Subject index.