Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section One. Authority is Constructed and Contextual -- Chapter 1. Teaching Inclusive Authorities: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and the Framework for Information Literacy in Native Art -- Chapter 2. "But How Do I Know It's a Good Source?" Authority is Constructed in Social Work Practice -- Chapter 3. Exploring Authority in Linguistics Research: Who to Trust When Everyone's a Language Expert -- Chapter 4. Evidence and Authority in Health and Exercise Science Research -- Section Two. Information Creation as a Process -- Chapter 5. Common Ground: Communicating Information -- Chapter 6. Using the Frame Information Creation as a Process to Teach Career Competencies to Advertising Students -- Chapter 7. Moving Public Health Learners to the Skeptical Edge with Information Creation as a Process -- Chapter 8. Teaching Source Selection in Public Affairs Using Information Creation as a Process -- Section Three. Information Has Value -- Chapter 9. Information Privilege in the Context of Community Engagement in Sociology -- Chapter 10. Images Have Value: Changing Student Perceptions of Using Images in Art History -- Chapter 11. Mining for the Best Information Value with Geoscience Students -- Chapter 12. Teaching the Teachers: The Value of Information for Educators -- Section Four. Research as Inquiry -- Chapter 13. Empowering, Enlightening, and Energizing: Research as Inquiry in Women's and Gender Studies -- Chapter 14. Framing the Visual Arts: The Challenges of Applying the Research as Inquiry Concept to Studio Art Information and Visual Literacy -- Chapter 15. Integrating the ACRL Threshold Concept Research as Inquiry into Baccalaureate Nursing Education -- Chapter 16. Action Research as Inquiry for Education Students -- Section Five. Scholarship as Conversation.

Chapter 17. Performance as Conversation: Dialogic Aspects of Music Performance and Study -- Chapter 18. Framing the Talk: Scholarship as Conversation in the Health Sciences -- Chapter 19. Widening the Threshold: Using Scholarship as Conversation to Welcome Students to Science -- Chapter 20. Theater as a Conversation: Threshold Concepts in the Performing Arts -- Section Six. Searching as Strategic Exploration -- Chapter 21. From Novice to Nurse: Searching For Patient Care Information as Strategic Exploration -- Chapter 22. Leveraging the Language of the Past: Searching as Strategic Exploration in the Discipline of History -- Chapter 23. Mapping the Chaos: Building a Research Practice with Threshold Concepts in Studio Art Disciplines -- Chapter 24. Teaching Future Educators Exploration through Strategic Searching -- Chapter 25. Threshold Concepts, Information Literacy, and Social Epistemology: A Critical Perspective on the ACRL Framework with Reference to Psychology -- Bibliography -- About the Authors.

In 25 chapters divided into sections mirroring ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education-Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, and Searching as Strategic Exploration-Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts explores threshold concepts as an idea and the specifics of what the concepts contained in the Framework look like in disciplinary contexts. The chapters cover many disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and physical sciences, and a range of students, from first-year undergraduates to doctoral students.

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