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List of contents
Introduction - Sarah McNicol PART 1: THEORIES OF CRITICAL LITERACY 1. Renegotiating the place of fiction in libraries through critical literacy - Sarah McNicol 2. Death of the Author(ity): Repositioning students as constructors of meaning in information literacy instruction - Jessica Critten 3. Reading health education comics critically, challenging power relationships - Sarah McNicol 4. Reframing librarian approaches to international student information literacy through the lens of New Literacy Studies - Alison Hicks 5. Using new literacies to discuss disability in the library - JJ Pionke 6. “Anyone can cook”: critical literacy in the workplace - Andrew Whitworth 7. Social justice, adult learning and critical literacy - Jennifer Lau-Bond PART 2: CRITICAL LITERACY IN PRACTICE 8. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Teaching Media Literacy - Michael Cherry 9. Curricular and extra-curricular opportunities to engage school students in critical literacy in England - Rebecca Jones 10. New media and critical literacy in secondary schools - Joel Crowley 11. Critical literacy and academic honesty: a school librarian’s role and contribution - Anthony Tilke 12. Engaging Undergraduate Communications Students in critical information literacy - Rachel Elizabeth Scott 13. Exploring pedagogical implications of students’ search mediation experiences though the lens of critical information literacy - Sarah Clark 14. Diffusing critical web literacy in a teacher education setting: initial reflections and future planning - Evangelia Bougatzeli and Efi Papadimitriou
About the author
Sarah McNicol is is a research associate at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She has worked as an Information Studies researcher since 2000, and has particular interests in information literacy; lifelong learning; and school and children’s libraries. She has published widely in the information studies field and has previously guest edited a number of journals including Library Review and Library Trends.
Summary
This edited collection explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries.
