Questioning Authority:Standard Three and the Critical Classroom

Questioning Authority: Standard Three & the

Critical Classroom

Emily Drabinski Jenna Freedman Lia Friedman @edrabinski @barnlib @piebrarian

The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.

Performance Indicators:

2. The information literate student articulates and applies initial criteria for evaluating both the information and its sources.

Outcomes Include:

A. Examines and compares information from various sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view or bias

B. Analyzes the structure and logic of supporting arguments or methods

C. Recognizes prejudice, deception, or manipulation

D. Recognizes the cultural, physical, or other context within which the information was created and understands the impact of context on interpreting the information

• Western-centric

• A Procrustean bed

• Imagine knowledge production as procedural and politically neutral

• Reinforce socioeconomic hierarchies

• Foreclose interrogation of the meaning of information and literacy

Critiques of Competency Standards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:STUDENT

Liberate LCSH: Empowering Non-Catalogers to Improve

Catalog Access Points

Presented at Questioning Authority: Standard Three and the Critical Classroom

by Jenna Freedman ACRL, April 2013

WHY

• Who nominates headings?• Who approves them?• What’s the big deal?• Selections• Assignments

READ (five minutes?)

• Zine: Coloring Outside the Lines issuu.com/decolonizingeducation/docs/coloring_outside_the_lines

• Book: Fat? So amazon.com/FAT-SO-Because-Dont-Apologize/dp/0898159954

• Web: NYCLU Stop & Frisk nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices

Brainstorm LCSH to Describe Your Text

• http://id.loc.gov• http://catalog.loc.gov• http://worldcat.org • http://librarything.com• http://www.goodreads.com (navigate to

shelves)

Suggest Terminology

• loc.gov/aba/pcc/prop/proposal.html• loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/sacogenfaq.html• lowereastsidelibrarian.info/search/node/sugg

est%20terminology• is.gd/acrl_lcsh • radicalreference.info/lcsh/2008/blog-a-thon

Contacts & credits• http://zines.barnard.edu• zines@barnard.edu• @barnlib• http://lowereastsidelibrarian.info/talks/2013/acrl

• Barnard Zine Library banner section of Rock Out: Ideas on Booking DIY Shows zine cover. Used with permission.