Information literacy as a facilitator of ethical practice in the professions
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To be information literate allows professionals to be aware of and able to locate, correctly interpret and apply research evidence, professional guidelines and other key sources in a full and complete manner, in a way that promises to achieve the best outcome for their patient or client as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
To be information literate allows professionals to be aware of and able to locate, correctly interpret and apply research evidence, professional guidelines and other key sources in a full and complete manner, in a way that promises to achieve the best outcome for their patient or client. Consequently, as suggested by early findings of an phenomenographic investigation into information literacy in nursing, to be information literate is to be ethical, not only in the correct use of information, but as part of the endeavour to achieve professional competence, and beyond that, the best practice possible. This would imply that the acquisition of information literacy has an ethical significance and value. Does information literacy education emphasise this? The literature suggests not. Could it, however, be the means of driving forward information literacy education for key professions?read more
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Web designers and developers experiences of information literacy: A phenomenographic study
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Fostering the integration of information literacy and journalism practice: a long-term study of journalism students
TL;DR: In this paper, a five-year qualitative study gathered annual reflections on information use from a total of 215 journalism students and found that many are integrating formal learning with experience to develop IL that serves their academic and professional information needs.
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Colleges of Education Librarians in Nigeria: An Investigation into the Self-Perception of ICT-Related Information Literacy Skills
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Exploring effective information use in an insurance workplace
Charles Inskip,Sophia Donaldson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discusses the current state of workplace information literacy and presents the findings of research into staff experiences of information use in a City insurance firm, using a framework previously developed out of phenomenographic research into nursing to draw parallels and highlight differences between insurance workplace and university student terminology.
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Developing an “experience framework” for an evidence-based information literacy educational intervention
TL;DR: The experience framework is developed by applying the qualitative methodology phenomenography to the analysis of the variation in the experience of a phenomenon by a target group, making specific use of one of its data analysis methods, that pioneered by Gerlese Akerlind.
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