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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.

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Author:   Dora Sales (University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain) ,  Maria Pinto (University of Granada, Spain)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint:   Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780081006733

ISBN 10:   008100673
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   27 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Senior Lecturer in Documentation Applied to Translation and Communication Studies at the University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain. Her main research interests are Documentation applied to Translation Studies and intercultural communication. She is a practising literary translator and heading researcher in funded R&D projects in the field of Documentation for intercultural communication and mediation. Professor of Information Science at the University of Granada, Spain. She is an expert in the field of abstracting, knowledge representation and data quality management. She has published several books, chapters and papers on these topics. Also, she is the heading researcher of diverse R&D projects on abstracting and e-learning portals in the context of information literacy.

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