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IN FORMATION LITERACY: A POSITIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY AND A POLITICS OF OUT FORMATION
Author(s) -
Kapitzke Cushla
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
educational theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1741-5446
pISSN - 0013-2004
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2003.00037.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , positivism , sociology , citation , literacy , information literacy , politics , social science , library science , media studies , pedagogy , epistemology , computer science , political science , philosophy , law
This article examines school libraries as a context for the emergence of digital literacies through a critical analysis of the signature discourse of library pedagogy, namely, information literacy. Using poststructuralist theory, it outlines a hyperliteracy approach and argues this would be more relevant and effective than the cognitive processing model of the modernist 'information literacy' framework