Subjects
collaborative instruction, critical information literacy, asset-focused approach, infographics, higher education
Document Type
Innovative Practice
Abstract
This article showcases an instructor–librarian collaborative model for teaching critical information literacy (CIL) skills in a higher education course by incorporating interactive workshops into a sequence of required course assignments. Using an asset-focused design, this assignment sequence allows students to first demonstrate their existing research strategies and then evaluate those strategies during workshop activities, applying the CIL principles they are learning. In this way, the approach recognizes students’ existing strengths and builds upon them, while emphasizing self-reflection opportunities and an intentional research focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation. Results from our one-year study are also highlighted. The suggested instructional strategies could be adapted to any course with research-related projects.
DOI
10.15760/comminfolit.2024.18.2.6
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42835
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Penrose, R. B., & Chavez, K. J. (2024). Building on Strengths: A Collaborative, Asset-Focused Approach to Teaching Critical Information Literacy Skills. Communications in Information Literacy, 18 (2), 218–243. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2024.18.2.6
