Bringing together the voices of a range of practicing librarians, this collection illuminates theories and methods of critical pedagogy and library instruction. Chapters address critical approaches to standards and assessment practices, links between queer, anti-racist and feminist pedagogies and the library classroom, intersections of critical theories of power and knowledge and the library, and the promise and peril of reflective instruction practices. Rooted in theoretical work both from within the profession (James Elmborg, Cushla Kapitzke) and without (Paolo Freire, Henry Giroux, Deborah Britzman), contributions are complemented by stories of critical approaches put into practice in institutional settings ranging from the community college classroom to large urban research universities to virtual worlds. The intention is to begin a conversation among librarians who teach, library instruction program coordinators, faculty and instructors interested in bringing librarians into the classroom, and librarians interested in developing liberatory and anti-oppressive professional practices.
Author(s): Maria T. Accardi; Emily Drabinski; Alana Kumbier
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 358
City: Duluth, Minnesota
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Section One Conceptual Toolkit
“There's Nothing on my Topic!” Using the Theories of Oscar
Wilde and Henry Giroux to Develop Critical Pedagogy for
Library Instruction.
Information Literacy and Social Power
Breaking the Ontological Mold: Bringing Postmodernism and Critical Pedagogy into Archival Educational Programming
Grand Narratives and the Information Cycle in the Library Instruction Classroom
Depositories of Knowledge: Library Instruction and the Development of Critical Consciousness
Section Two Classroom Toolkit
Problem-based learning as teaching strategy
Re-visioning the library seminar through a lens of critical pedagogy
Negotiating Virtual Contact Zones: Revolutions in the Role of the Research Workshop
Paradigm Shift: Utilizing Critical Feminist Pedagogy in Library Instruction
Section Three Teaching in Context
Preparing Critically Conscious, Information Literate Special Educators for Alaska’s Schools
Information and Service Learning
Critical Pedagogy and Information Literacy in Community Colleges
Making a Home: Critical Pedagogy in a Library Internship Program for High School Students
Section Four Unconventional Texts
Posing the Wikipedia “Problem”: Information Literacy and the Praxis of Problem-Posing in Library Instruction
Out of the margins ... into the panels: Toward a theory of comics as a medium of critical pedagogy in library instruction
Information Literacy Standards and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Using User-Generated Content to Incorporate Critical Pedagogy
Critical Approach to Asia through Library Collections and Instruction in North America: Selection of Culture and Counterhegemonic Library Practices
Section Five Institutional Power
Teaching Against the Grain: Critical Assessment in the Library Classroom
Information Is Personal: Critical Information Literacy and Personal Epistemology
Encountering Values: The Place of Critical Consciousness in the Competency Standards
Disintermediation and Resistance: Giroux and Radical Praxis in the Library
The Library as “Stuck Place”: Critical Pedagogy in the Corporate University
About the Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
