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Information Literacy Research and Practice: An Experiential Perspective

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In this paper I explore some experience-based perspectives on information literacy research and practice. Approaching information literacy from the point of view of those experiencing it, is very different from the standard interpretations of information literacy as involving largely text based information searching, interpretation, evaluation and use. It also involves particular understandings of the interrelation between information and learning experiences. In following this thread of the history of information literacy, I reflect on aspects of the past, present and future of information literacy research. In each of these areas I explore experiential, especially phenomenographic, approaches to information literacy and information literacy education, to reveal the unfolding understanding of people’s experience of information literacy. The evolution and development of the phenomenographic approach to information literacy, and the associated growing attention to a dual focus on information and learning experiences are highlighted.

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  1. Information Systems School, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Christine Susan Bruce

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Esther Grassian  & Diane Mizrachi  & 

  3. University of Stirling, UK

    Ralph Catts

  4. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

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Bruce, C.S. (2013). Information Literacy Research and Practice: An Experiential Perspective. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R., Špiranec, S. (eds) Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. ECIL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_2

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