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Ndumu, Ana; Walker, Shaundra; Burns-Simpson, Shauntee; Hayes, Nichelle M.; Mack, Tiffany – Education for Information, 2022
According to LIS research, the U.S. library and information science field reflects more than 135 years of white racialized, monocultural pedagogy. Critical race theory helps us understand why Blacks remain on the margins of the LIS profession. Armed with critical racial knowledge, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association embarked on a…
Descriptors: Library Education, Library Science, Information Science, Racism
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Poole, Alex H.; Agosto, Denise; Greenberg, Jane; Lin, Xia; Yan, Erjia – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
The field of LIS continues to face a vexing paradox. Its longstanding ideal of and concomitant commitment to serving diverse communities and users equally has failed to translate into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the profession or in LIS education. This article analyzes efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in North…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Library Science, Student Diversity, Equal Education
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Moorefield-Lang, Heather; Copeland, Clayton A.; Haynes, Aisha – Education for Information, 2016
This conceptual paper will discuss how faculty from The School of Library and Information Science at The University of South Carolina partnered with their university's Center for Teaching Excellence. This partnership resulted in the facilitation of professional development workshops and online tools for peer educators to better serve distance…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Library Science, Information Science, Partnerships in Education
Shu, Fei; Larivière, Vincent; Mongeon, Philippe; Julien, Charles-Antoine; Piper, Andrew – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2016
Since the 1960s, many scholars have questioned the relationship between library science and information science. This paper investigates LIS doctoral dissertations in terms of their topics and interdisciplinarity in the period 1960-2013. Results show that LIS is an interdisciplinary field in which library science and information science are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Information Science Education, Educational Change
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Stoerger, Sharon; Krieger, Denise – Education for Information, 2016
Traditionally, a large lecture hall course follows a teacher-centered approach to instruction. This was the case for the "gateway" course in the undergraduate Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) major in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This paper describes the journey…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Lecture Method, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods