Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
The frameworks focuses on 6 threshold concepts, identified to serve as passageways or tunnels leading learners to enlarged understanding and ways of thinking and practicing within their professional disciplines. Each framework consists of a concept central to information literacy and coordinates in threshold concepts, which are those difficult stages a learner passes through in any discipline that are essential portals to ways of understanding and thinking in their disciplines. Each framework prompts questions about what learners will need to know, experience and do in order to demonstrate their improved understanding as they progress to being experts in their fields of study and as information literate individuals. However, there is no particular way or sequence in which these frameworks can be learned.For now,I would like to focus on one framework which is Scholarship as Conversation.
What is Scholarship as Conversation
What is Scholarship as Conversation
Scholars, researchers and other professionals collaborate in debating against one another. They discuss different topics aimed at assisting other researchers or learners in conducting further research on those same or other related topics that may have raised questions or motivated researchers to conduct further research.
Where do we practice Scholarship as Conversation?
I am a Post Graduate learner. One of my modules is User Studies. The module's learning outcome requires me to conduct a research on youth information needs. My research literature required me to review and cross-reference other previous research conducted on the same or related topics and do a comparison of the results. As I am busy conducting the research, I have noticed that other research papers were conducted to answer questions that raised from other researcher's published papers.
How can educators enhance this framework within learners?
Firstly,researchers conducted their research and on their conclusions they suggested that there was further research needed to be done on some of the topics. So basically, learners must be encouraged in taking part in conducting research in their disciplines; or educators can come up with topics and ask learners to debate on those topics based on previous research.
Where do we practice Scholarship as Conversation?
I am a Post Graduate learner. One of my modules is User Studies. The module's learning outcome requires me to conduct a research on youth information needs. My research literature required me to review and cross-reference other previous research conducted on the same or related topics and do a comparison of the results. As I am busy conducting the research, I have noticed that other research papers were conducted to answer questions that raised from other researcher's published papers.
How can educators enhance this framework within learners?
Firstly,researchers conducted their research and on their conclusions they suggested that there was further research needed to be done on some of the topics. So basically, learners must be encouraged in taking part in conducting research in their disciplines; or educators can come up with topics and ask learners to debate on those topics based on previous research.
Thank you Fikiswa. You have the basic understanding of this Frame. We refer to it as a Frame and not a Framework. This will be clarified in class.
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