IFLA article on incorporating information literacy into a curriculum

This article (click on the title of this blog to get to the article) should interest those of you who are busy incorporating information literacy into the academic curriculum. The IFLA (Milan 2009) article tries to unpick the ingredients that enabled us (Julie Brittain and her colleagues at the Institute of Development Studies and myself) to achieve our goals. The article also reflects on how such an intervention could have been improved.

Personally I think that a similar strategy could be taken at any educational level and in any discipline. Of course the expectations would be different and the information context and norms would be different but, essentially, similar activities could take place. It would be interesting if people disagreed!

One aspect of the intervention that I found particularly interesting was working with students from different countries and backgrounds and the nature of the subject domain 'Participation, Power and Social Change'. Participative methods, that originate to a great extent out of development work, are now highly developed and have lessons for anyone trying to engage with a particular community and facilitate learning and changes in outlook.