Library Faculty & Staff Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Publication Title
Journal of Information Literacy
Publisher
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Keywords
information literacy, Germany, higher education, Informationskompetenz, information literacy pedagogy, metaliteracy
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the original and diverse approaches to the concept of information literacy in the German academic world. Unlike the American notion of information literacy, whose pedagogy, methodology and conceptualization follow guidelines set forth by powerful professional organisations such as ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) and ALA (American Library Association), the German notion of information literacy is still negotiated on an interdisciplinary market of ideas ranging from communication science to didactics and from cultural anthropology to epistemology. An awareness of this international perspective on information literacy is timely, given the recent debates about the legitimacy of the radically new approach to information literacy put forth in the ACRL Framework.
First Page
78
Last Page
93
Volume
10
Issue
2
Repository Citation
Piloiu, Rares G., "Rethinking the Concept of “Information Literacy”: a German Perspective" (2016). Library Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 9.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/lib_fac/9
Original Citation
Piloiu, R.G. 2016. Rethinking the concept of “information literacy”: a German perspective. Journal of Information Literacy, 10(2), pp. 78-93.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/10.2.2126
Version
Post-Print
Peer Reviewed
1