Published In
portal: Libraries and the Academy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Subjects
Curricula (Courses of study), Information literacy, Serial publications
Abstract
What do we teach when we teach information literacy in higher education? This paper describes a pedagogical approach to information literacy that helps instructors focus content around transformative learning thresholds. The threshold concept framework holds promise for librarians because it grounds the instructor in the big ideas and underlying concepts that make information literacy exciting and worth learning about. This paper looks at how this new idea relates to existing standards and posits several threshold concepts for information literacy. This article won the 2013 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section (IS) Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award.
Rights
This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by The Johns Hopkins University Press and can be found at: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/.
DOI
10.1353/pla.2011.0030
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/7417
Citation Details
Townsend, L., Brunetti, K., & Hofer, A. R. (2011). Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy. Portal: Libraries And The Academy, 11(3), 853-869.