Posts Tagged ‘critical librarianship’
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We Need to Talk About How We Talk About Disability: A Critical Quasi-systematic Review
2021–02–24 | No commentsTags: critical disability studies, critical librarianship, disability, intersectionality, systematic reviewBy Amelia Gibson, Kristen Bowen, and Dana Hanson In Brief This quasi-systematic review uses a critical disability framework to assess definitions of disability, use of critical disability approaches, and hierarchies of credibility in LIS research between 1978 and 2018. We present quantitative and qualitative findings about trends and gaps in the research, and discuss the…
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Against medicine: Constructing a queer-feminist community health informatics and librarianship
2019–09–04 | 1 commentTags: community health informatics, critical librarianship, gender diversity, health, informatics, queer theoryIn Brief Community health informatics (CHI) is rapidly developing as a field of library practice but remains constrained by unexamined definitions of “community”, “health”, and “informatics” as separate and unified terms. This is further complicated by a failure to situate libraries within a history of institutional oppression which continues to work itself out in the…
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We Used Problem-Based Learning in Library Instruction and Came to Question Its Treatment of Students
2017–08–09 | 3 commentsTags: banking concept, critical librarianship, critical pedagogy, group work, Problem-Based Learning, student centeredIn Brief: Two instruction librarians at a medium-sized liberal-arts college on the East Coast of the United States replaced their lecture-style teaching with Problem-Based Learning (PBL). They collaborated with two English instructors to bring PBL to a two-session sequence of library instruction. However, the more they used PBL, and the more they read about how…
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Beyond the Threshold: Conformity, Resistance, and the ACRL Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education
2015–02–25 | 11 commentsTags: ACRL Framework, critical information literacy, critical librarianship, information literacy, neoliberalismThrowback Thursday for July 16, 2015: In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes Ian Beilin to our Editorial Board! In honor of Throwback Thursday, we’re highlighting Ian’s recent piece on the ACRL Framework. In Brief: The recently adopted ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education has generated much critique and discussion, including…