QUT ePrints

Information literacy : a review and poststructural critique

Kapitzke, Cushla (2003) Information literacy : a review and poststructural critique. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 26(1), pp. 53-66.

View at publisher

Abstract

This paper examines the literacies of libraries through a poststructuralist critique of the concept, 'information literacy.' It argues that, because the assumptions of the information literacy framework hail from print cultures, a modernist paradigm and psychologistic discourses, it is not so much a panacea but a hindrance to critical and transformative literacy practice. Considering the context of information capitalism within which educators work, these are pedagogical, political and ethical issues that are yet to be addressed by the profession.

Impact and interest:

Citation countsare sourced monthly from Scopus and Web of Science® citation databases.

These databases contain citations from different subsets of available publications and different time periods and thus the citation count from each is usually different. Some works are not in either database and no count is displayed. Scopus includes citations from articles published in 1996 onwards, and Web of Science® generally from 1980 onwards.

Citations counts from the Google Scholar™ indexing service can be viewed at the linked Google Scholar™ search.

Full-text downloads:

1,366 since deposited on 06 Aug 2007
163 in the past twelve months

Full-text downloadsdisplays the total number of times this work’s files (e.g., a PDF) have been downloaded from QUT ePrints as well as the number of downloads in the previous 365 days. The count includes downloads for all files if a work has more than one.

ID Code: 8867
Item Type: Journal Article
Additional URLs:
Keywords: Information literacy, digital literacies, multiliteracies, school libraries, modernist paradigm, poststructuralism, bibliographic instruction, sociology of knowledge, knowledge politics, knowledge capitalism, disintermediation, information skills, teacher librarians, school librarians, critical discursive practice, HERN
ISSN: 1038-1562
Subjects: Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > EDUCATION (130000) > OTHER EDUCATION (139900)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > EDUCATION (130000) > CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY (130200) > Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified (130299)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY (160000) > SOCIOLOGY (160800) > Sociology of Education (160809)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > EDUCATION (130000) > SPECIALIST STUDIES IN EDUCATION (130300) > Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified (130399)
Divisions: Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Education
Past > Schools > School of Cultural & Language Studies in Education
Copyright Owner: Copyright 2003 Australian Literacy Educators' Association
Copyright Statement: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
Deposited On: 06 Aug 2007
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2013 16:55

Export: EndNote | Dublin Core | BibTeX

Repository Staff Only: item control page
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/8867/
eprints.qut.edu.au
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-42
31668
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:F7ZRMLRIJMTT6K4AHN6QM2HDEAPBRDPN
<urn:uuid:7882abfd-10ef-4c11-86b6-78b1a0aca381>
2014-10-21T08:02:29Z
131.181.108.87
sha1:OIITIJTVJGIHJRROJ5BNHSPVJVQD7TUV
<urn:uuid:861266d6-85b3-4f90-8689-6b2df6d2c0ac>
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/8867/
length
response
<urn:uuid:69be5d0c-ae43-49c2-b916-c146cd97ecd2>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-42
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for October 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf