Practising Information Literacy

Challenges for future research on learning, literacies and information practices

Sanna Talja and Annemaree Lloyd

This volume has put forward new ways of understanding the phenomena of learning and schooling, the nature of literacy, and the role of various sources and types of information in the development of expertise. It has highlighted various ways in which information literacy as a social practice is spoken about, acted upon and inextricably tied with the specific activity setting in which information and knowledge are used and produced. Many of the chapters in this book indicate that the situated and dialogic theories of learning and literacies necessarily disrupt the traditional educational discourse through which we, as practitioners ...