Extending boundaries: Team teaching to embed information literacy in a university module
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Date
2020
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UNISA
Abstract
In today�s knowledge-based economy, the role of universities in preparing
students to be information literate and independent thinkers and researchers is
crucial. Information literacy (IL) skills enable students to become researchoriented, hold critical approaches to knowledge, be critical thinkers, consider
things from different perspectives, develop their own ideas and defend and share
these in an ethical manner. University students are often expected to access,
process, evaluate and synthesise information from a number of sources in order
to complete their assessment tasks. To do this efficiently, they need to possess
good IL skills. This article postulates that students� IL skills can be successfully
fostered and enhanced if academics and academic librarians enter into a
partnership to collaboratively develop students� IL skills. The article discusses
an intervention at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa that entailed
embedding IL skills in an academic literacies (AL) course offered to first-year
students in the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences.
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Keywords
Information literacy, Academic literacy, Academic librarians, Higher education, Team teaching, Partnership
Citation
Bharuthram, S. et al. (2020). Extending boundaries: Team teaching to embed information literacy in a university module. Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, 37(2), 6426. https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-659x/6426