Information Literacy: An International State of the Art
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Francisco Javier Bernal was a pioneer in developing information literacy in schools in Spain. In 1985 he proposed a 'pedagogy of information' within the first National Program for Scientific and Technological Information and Documentation, and in 1992 a transversal topic - educación documental (documentary education) in the curriculum for compulsory education. As a result, several special optional courses on information literacy were developed, and a number of pilot projects in schools came to include user education. In some Spanish regions, coordination centers now support school libraries in distributing materials and sharing experiences to foster information literacy. For example, the Dirección Provincial de Málaga (Málaga provincial administration) provides specific materials to support information literacy on its website for school pupils. Another good example is the Instituto Fray Luis de León, a high school/secondary school in Salamanca, where teachers across different disciplines use the library to support their pupils’ learning processes. There are also several ICT literacy projects under development for primary and secondary school pupils, in which school library, digital library and learning resource portals are interlinked. However, a common problem for most ICT literacy programs lies in the widespread assumption that mastering ICT tools is the same thing as mastering information access and use.
Several Spanish universities offer optional credit courses within the curriculum for most degrees, free configuration credit courses for specialized documentation skills, and specific tutorial support for final-year students preparing their end-of-course dissertation. Examples of free-choice credit courses include those offered by the universities of Barcelona, Granada and the Polytechnic of Catalonia. The websites of numerous university libraries include tutorials and user guides to support information literacy, for example, at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia). More and more higher education institutions include specific user education and information skills courses within their curricula for specific disciplines and degrees. An example is the course 'Information Skills and Strategies' offered by the Universidad de Murcia. Regarding the instruction offered at university level in INFOLIT, we may refer in the first place to extracurricular support by teaching staff or information professionals, which is of special interest for developing students’ information skills, starting out from familiarity with the INFOLIT paradigm. In this connection, the courses held have included the following:
The following doctoral courses have been given:
At undergraduate level, a number of courses are also given as options within various first-degree programs. These include areas related to information and digital literacy, in the form of applied documentation subjects relating to various degrees which require a basic training in information literacy, developed on a more or less systematic basis by the teaching staff responsible for the area. Here, we may mention the following courses: «Producción y Recuperación Científica», at the Universidad de Alicante (Comunidad Valenciana), «Specialized Information in Audiovisual Media and Reference Texts for Historical Work’, at the Universitat de Barcelona, ‘Navigation Systems for Information’ at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ‘Documentation for Advertising and Public Relations’ and 'Introduction to Information and Documentation in Science and Technology’ at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 'Clinical Documentation' at the Universidad de Granada, ‘Specialized Sources in Legal and Administrative Documentation’ and 'Medical Documentation’ at the Universidad de Murcia, and 'Documentary Methods and Techniques for Scientific Work’, for Nursing Studies, and 'Documentation’ for Medicine and Odontology, at the Universidad de Valencia. We may also mention a number of free-choice subjects and documentation courses taught by faculty of the area of Library Sciences and Documentation as part of other qualifications, such as those of the Universidad de Extremadura (Documentation Services for Business), the Universidad de Granada (Applied Documentation for Psychology and Information Sources in Health Sciences), the Universidad de Zaragoza (Scientific Documentation in Agronomy), the Universidad de Murcia (Administrative and Legal Documentation), and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Methodology for Research Projects) . Also, as compulsory subjects, applied documentation components are taught on the following first-degree courses: Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, Medicine, Translation and Interpretation, Political Sciences, and Management and Public Administration. Yüklə 0,92 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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