...Renee Morrison Purpose This study examines the temporal dynamics shaping our understanding of search in education and the role language plays in legitimising these dynamics. It critiques the way online search is discursively constructed using home-education as a case study, and problematises how...

...), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Research work Information science Education Evolution Interdisciplinarity Scientific change LIS has been long...

... Information Encountering (TIE), deriving its definition from an application of Transformative Education (TE) theory to existing understandings of IE. This paper aims to discuss the potential for librarians and archivists to promote TIE through everyday practices. Design/methodology/approach After defining...

... as perceived by these students. Design/methodology/approach The document is based on a qualitative phenomenographic study of 40 first-year undergraduate students of teacher education programs from five faculties of Comenius University in Bratislava. Data were collected from each participant in two stages...

...Cheryl Canning; Steven Buchanan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance the understanding of the information behaviours of prisoners, providing insight into their information needs and information-seeking preferences, and the factors influencing their behaviours; to inform education...

.... As such digital curation has reach across all disciplines and sub-disciplines of information science and has the potential to become the overarching paradigm. Practical implications These findings could influence digital curation’s development from applied discipline to profession within both its educational...

...Irene Lopatovska; Tiffany Carcamo; Nicholas Dease; Elijah Jonas; Simen Kot; Grace Pamperien; Anthony Volpe; Kurt Yalcin Purpose In an effort to advance visual literacy (VL) education, the purpose of this paper is to develop and test a VL instruction program for 2.5-4-year-old children in a public...

...). The importance and benefits of developing visual literacy in young children has been recognized by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Art Education Association, yet there are very few programs aimed at developing basic visual literacy skills in pre-school children...

... of context and complexity in experience achieved through the Akerlind data analysis technique, are essential to a framework’s structure and educationally valuable richness of detail. Findings – The “experience framework”, an example of which is set out in this paper, is formed from a detailed range...

... of an IL approach to understanding how information is experienced in a workplace context. Originality/value This paper reports original research of significance to information professionals and educators. The outcomes of this research raise questions about our current conceptions of IL, especially...

.... Part 1 discusses strategic issues, first of all government‐level policies in the UK and New Zealand. Chapter 1 by Les Watson, an educational consultant gives us a bird's eye‐view of the British HE. We learn here that we have to be aware of the fact that it is characterised by “massification...

...Michela Montesi; John Mackenzie Owen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline how article genres, or article types, are classified and described in the disciplines of biology, education, and software engineering. By using the expression article genres, emphasis is placed on the social role...

... people what they already know. Also, whilst it may be cognitively ergonomic to provide a student with information sources matched to, say, a memorisation‐based surface approach to studying – if this is what the learner chooses to apply – it may nevertheless be educationally desirable to force...

...Johan Bollen Deanna B. Marcum's Development of Digital Libraries – An American Perspective collects a total of 22 lectures on the subject of the development of digital libraries by prominent library, education and information technology specialists. The lectures took place...

... ways in which technology can be embedded in “traditional” delivery, either as part of, or in addition to the classroom experience. These chapters focus on different disciplines, including law, finance, languages, education, architecture, humanities, and information systems. The account...

...Rita Marcella In possibly the most significant individual paper, Molenda and Sullivan review issues and trends in the field of educational technology, in a concise, comprehensible and sensible manner. They argue that we are reaching a plateau in the seemingly inexorable upward curve of computer...

... that indicates it. As a North American library educator, the contents of this volume beckoned because its topic seemed to speak directly to my interests and needs. Reading the various papers, however, I realized that my perspective differs from that of many of the authors. For this reason, I beg...

...Rita Marcella Library users Education This monograph contains chapters based on 42 presentations given at a conference sponsored by the University of Iowa Center of Teaching held in November 1999. The Conference was designed as a forum for the discussion of educational strategies...

...Ole Harbo The paper analyses the development of LIS research in Denmark since 1985, when research became one of the main activities of the Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS) along with education and continuing education. The paper outlines the background for the development...