ANCIL: integrating information literacy into the curriculum through research, reflection and...

ANCIL: integrating information literacy into the curriculum through research, reflection and collaboration

Dr Jane Secker and Dr Emma Coonan

‘The road less travelled’, 31 January 2014

Research principlesCollaboration and applied

research at LSEThe student’s-eye view

Overview

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Research principles

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Information literacy is a continuum of skills, behaviours, approaches and values that is so deeply entwined with the uses of information as to be a fundamental element of learning,

scholarship and research.

It is the defining characteristic of the discerning scholar, the informed and judicious

citizen, and the autonomous learner.

Secker and Coonan, ANCIL definition of information literacy, 2011

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Collaboration and research at LSE

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Joining up support

“The immediate connotation of the term ‘embedding’ is placement and addition.

While present in the [curriculum] it is neither integral nor integrated. It is

there as an add-on and can possibly be done without.”

(Victor Lim Fei, 2012)

Embedding vs integrating?

“… if the teachers, whether they’re school or university teachers, don’t have the same

view of IL that we do, it’s always going to be [about] the skills. And the skills are fine but anybody can teach the skills; it’s teaching the changing attitude and the different

approach that I think has to come from the teachers.”

(ANCIL Expert Consultation Report, 2011)

Challenging perceptions …

LSE Survey examined staff attitudes towards IL

Also explored perceptions of librarians as teachers

Evidence of Bury’s (2011) ‘disconnect’

Much IL optional, remedial – student self select

Staff questioned relevance Need more evidence to show the

value and impact of IL

Research

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Student ambassadors

Pockets of good practice

Strategy: New D& IL framework

Pilots and review

Digital Literacies at LSE

The student’s-eye view

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Graduate identity as a complex mix of elements:

ValuesIntellectPerformanceEngagementReflection

= VIPER

UEA VIPER model

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“It is as absurd to try and solve the problems of

education by giving people access to information as it

would be to solve the housing problem by giving people

access to bricks.”

(Diana Laurillard, 2002)

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j.secker@lse.ac.uk / @jsecker

e.coonan@uea.ac.uk / @LibGoddess

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Thank you!

Bell, Maria, Moon, Darren and Secker, Jane (2012) Undergraduate support at LSE: the ANCIL report. The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/48058/

Bury, Sophie (2011) Faculty attitudes, perceptions and experiences of information literacy: A study across multiple disciplines at York University, Canada. Journal of Information Literacy (5) 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/5.1.1513

Hinchliffe, Geoffrey and Jolly, Adrienne (2011) Graduate identity and employability, British Educational Research Journal 37(4)

LSE Digital and Information Literacy Framework (2013) Available at: http://bit.ly/1gq63IO

SADL Project (2014) Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy. Available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl/

Secker, Jane and Coonan, Emma. (2012) Rethinking Information Literacy: a practical framework for support learning. Facet Publishing: London

Wrathall, Katy (2012) Strategies for Implementing ANCIL in Non-Cambridge HEIs. Available at: http://bit.ly/16kKb8b

Further reading