Last week I went to chat to some postgrad students at Sheffield University. We were talking about my NTF project and what it was like to be a “practitioner-researchers” One area which interested them was the concept I introduced in my NTF report of an Information Literacy Landscape. This is how I descrobed it in the report: “The information literacy landscape through which an individual moves is shaped by external factors as well as a range of personal attributes and perceptions. The IL diagram illustrates the complexity. If we want to develop information literate students, we need to be aware that the landscape in which they are developing will be influenced by a wide range of different factors. Too rigid an approach may result in an individual losing their way through their own personal IL environment.”
I’ve put a copy of the IL landscape on a slide and you can see it here:
