Identity of information literacy
Jakub Fázik
Although the term information literacy has been in use only since 1974, nowadays this concept is interpreted very widely. Andrew Whitworth presents in his book Radical Information Literacy several most important areas, where the concept of information literacy is used most often and distinguishes four basic vectors. Our tendency is to extend the sight on information literacy and to identify others vectors of information literacy according to different models, definitions, frameworks of information literacy and too according Whitworth's work: the political vector, the cognitive vector, the social-phenomenological vector, the technological vector, the pedagogical vector, the practical vector, the labor vector and others. Because of variety of this concept some authors suggest in information literacy discourse to use this term in plural information literacies. Our chosen approach to identify the identity of information literacy concept consist of analyzes the concept of literacy and the concept of information, like proposed Ch. S. Bruce.
Comenius University in Bratislava, SK
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Although the term information literacy has been in use only since 1974, nowadays this concept is interpreted very widely. Andrew Whitworth presents in his book Radical Information Literacy several most important areas, where the concept of information literacy is used most often and distinguishes four basic vectors. Our tendency is to extend the sight on information literacy and to identify others vectors of information literacy according to different models, definitions, frameworks of information literacy and too according Whitworth's work: the political vector, the cognitive vector, the social-phenomenological vector, the technological vector, the pedagogical vector, the practical vector, the labor vector and others. Because of variety of this concept some authors suggest in information literacy discourse to use this term in plural information literacies. Our chosen approach to identify the identity of information literacy concept consist of analyzes the concept of literacy and the concept of information, like proposed Ch. S. Bruce.
Comenius University in Bratislava, SK
[email protected]