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Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy
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Townsend, Lori; Brunetti, Korey; Hofer, Amy R. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
What do we teach when we teach information literacy in higher education? This paper describes a pedagogical approach to information literacy that helps instructors focus content around transformative learning thresholds. The threshold concept framework holds promise for librarians because it grounds the instructor in the big ideas and underlying…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Information Literacy, Higher Education, Models