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Learning Scholarly Information Competencies in the Community of Practice: A Case Study of Polish Critical Pedagogy Researchers

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The present paper presents the findings of research conducted in 2014/2015. The aim of the research was to understand how members of a particular academic community learn scholarly information competencies, wherein learning was perceived as a social and cultural phenomenon and, especially, as a practice. The research methodology was based on semi-structured interviews with individual members of the community and focus-group interviews. The community under study consisted of Polish critical pedagogy researchers. My investigations drew on Schatzki, Lave, and Wenger for the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the qualitative data analysis. The research showed that being a part of the community of practice offers multiple opportunities to learn scholarly information literacy. However, at the same time, being inside and co-creating a community does not necessarily entail new scholarly information competencies since the group may hinder the inclusion of new practices.

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    The present paper was written as a part of the project “Społeczne uczenie się kompetencji informacyjnych przez polskich pedagogów krytycznych: studium przypadku” financed by the Faculty of Education of the University of Lower Silesia, decision number 04/dok/WGW/2015.

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I would like to thank the respondents for their cooperation and trust. I am grateful to Patrycja Poniatowska and Emanuel Kulczycki for their valuable remarks.

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    Ewa A. Rozkosz

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Rozkosz, E.A. (2015). Learning Scholarly Information Competencies in the Community of Practice: A Case Study of Polish Critical Pedagogy Researchers. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_53

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