Information literacy and the curriculum in Latin American higher education
This article presents the theoretical analysis of various authors on the importance of Information Literacy (IL) as one of the central aspects in the curriculum for Latin American universities. This analysis seeks to determine the causes that affects the integration into the curriculum and finds, am...
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Tecnológico de Antioquia Institución Universitaria
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| description | This article presents the theoretical analysis of various authors on the importance of Information Literacy (IL) as one of the central aspects in the curriculum for Latin American universities. This analysis seeks to determine the causes that affects the integration into the curriculum and finds, among others, that the teaching of this skill is taught by professors who are not researchers, there is a lack of effective communication between the library and the university, and pedagogical preparation of librarians for their teaching. Subsequently, some recommendations of the possible solutions are made to integrate into the study plans, such as involving the librarians together with the academics in the curricular design, generating new librarian profiles, offering library subjects in the first semesters of the degree, developing the interest of students in learning this skill, as well as influencing their curiosity to investigate. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d39015390b94df2bdfaa86f3b1f299f2023-08-11T23:40:48ZengTecnológico de Antioquia Institución UniversitariaSenderos Pedagogicos2145-82432023-06-0114141155https://doi.org/10.53995/rsp.v14i14.1391Information literacy and the curriculum in Latin American higher educationAlejandro Villegas Muro0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6362-5137Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4884-0474Universidad Autónoma de ChihuahuaUniversidad Autónoma de ChihuahuaThis article presents the theoretical analysis of various authors on the importance of Information Literacy (IL) as one of the central aspects in the curriculum for Latin American universities. This analysis seeks to determine the causes that affects the integration into the curriculum and finds, among others, that the teaching of this skill is taught by professors who are not researchers, there is a lack of effective communication between the library and the university, and pedagogical preparation of librarians for their teaching. Subsequently, some recommendations of the possible solutions are made to integrate into the study plans, such as involving the librarians together with the academics in the curricular design, generating new librarian profiles, offering library subjects in the first semesters of the degree, developing the interest of students in learning this skill, as well as influencing their curiosity to investigate.https://ojs.tdea.edu.co/index.php/senderos/article/view/1391information literacyresearch skillsinformation technologiescurriculumhigher education |
| spellingShingle | Alejandro Villegas Muro Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo Information literacy and the curriculum in Latin American higher education Senderos Pedagogicos information literacy research skills information technologies curriculum higher education |
| title | Information literacy and the curriculum in Latin American higher education |
| title_full | Information literacy and the curriculum in Latin American higher education |
| title_fullStr | Information literacy and the curriculum in Latin American higher education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Information literacy and the curriculum in Latin American higher education |
| title_short | Information literacy and the curriculum in Latin American higher education |
| title_sort | information literacy and the curriculum in latin american higher education |
| topic | information literacy research skills information technologies curriculum higher education |
| url | https://ojs.tdea.edu.co/index.php/senderos/article/view/1391 |
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