Dr Jane Secker and Dr Emma Coonan
Arcadia Project, Cambridge University Library
Published 17 Feb 2017 • 30 mins read
A new curriculum for information literacy
The curriculum outlines what the authors believe to be a continuum of skills, competencies, behaviours and attitudes that comprise the spectrum of information literacy.
The curriculum consists of ten thematic strands encompassing the full range of facets comprised in information literacy.
It is intended to be sufficiently flexible and adaptable that it can be implemented in any higher education institution at undergraduate level.
The emphasis throughout is on the student’s development as a discerning scholar and, beyond the academic arena, as an informed citizen and an autonomous and lifelong learner.
The overarching aim of the curriculum is to help undergraduate learners to develop a high‐level, reflective understanding of information contexts and issues which will empower them with a robust framework for handling new information situations, and to generate strategies for evaluating, analysing and and assimilating that information as needed and at the time it is required.
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