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This doctoral forum paper presents the methodology of the researcher’s dissertation which aims to integrate IL skills instruction into the Iranian primary science curriculum. Through linking the classroom and the school library it is hoped to identify the extent that integrating IL skills instruction into primary science curriculum will improve the IL skills of students. In recent years, Iran’s Ministry of Education has embarked on reforms in the education system by adopting various documents and acts, but researches show that IL skills instruction, school libraries and librarians do not yet an important role in the school’s curriculum, documents and text-books. Thus, the current dissertation in broader term aims to make state education officials more aware of the importance of IL education in schools. The Big6 model of Eisenberg and Berkowitz [1] is used for integrating IL skills into the Iranian 6th grade science curriculum in this dissertation, which is being completed in 3 stages.
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Baji, F. (2014). Integrating Information Literacy Instruction into Iranian Primary Science Curriculum. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_29
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