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Diep, Kim Chi – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Information Literacy (IL) competencies are defined as "the ability to locate, evaluate, and use information effectively" and are considered essential for students in their academic lives and future careers (ALA, 1989). IL plays an important role in developing critical thinking and problem solving skills, and improving academic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Learning Theories, Information Needs, Teacher Role
Hazlitt, William – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
In this essay, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) deplores the effects of the classical education of his time on students who memorized without understanding and on teachers who tended toward pedantry. Interchange editors noted that "many of his criticisms of scholars and schooling have a contemporary ring...." (PP)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Foundations of Education, Higher Education, Humanistic Education