Facilitating Pupil Thinking About Information Literacy

Whilst information literacy is frequently taught through the imposition on learners of an established framework, this paper suggests a different approach by taking a lead from James Herring’s ideas. Specifically, it provides guidance to school-based information professionals who would like to encourage their pupils to devise their own flexible, information literacy models which are unique to them. Drawing on existing material in information science and wider thought, it proposes areas for coverage and considers how information professionals may support the dynamic process of model construction. It is recommended that those who are intent on facilitating the creation of personal information literacy models help pupils to identify the roles they take on in their lives, to reflect on the information needs that result, to ascertain the information they require in particular situations, to explore their information-seeking activities, to consider means by which information can be captured and to give thought as to how the information they have accessed may be used. This framework is, however, by no means rigid and readers are, of course, free to make their own adjustments

Bronowski, Jacob, Humanism and the Growth of Knowledge, pp. 74-103 in his A Sense of the Future . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.*

Reviews the content of Popper\u27s The Logic of Scientific Discovery

The ascent of man

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The ascent of man

p 287;bib.;index;19 c

Science and human values

Copy of the article by J. Bronowski entitled, "Science and human values," originally published in the magazine, The Nation, vol. 183, no. 26 (Saturday, 29 December 1956); copy sent to Lorenzo A. Richard