Qualitative research in the field of information literacy in the second decade of the XXI century

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_18

Qualitative research in the field of information ...

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title:	Qualitative research in the field of information literacy in the second decade of the XXI century
author:	Cisek Sabina
editor:	Kurbanoğlu Serap, Špiranec Sonja, Grassian Esther, Mizrachi Diane, Catts Ralph
Book title:	Information literacy : lifelong learning and digital citizenship in the 21st century : Second European Conference, ECIL 2014, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 20-23, 2014 : proceedings
date of publication:	2014
place of publication : name of publisher:	Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London : Springer
pages:	170-179
ISBN:	978-3-319-14135-0
eISBN:	978-3-319-14136-7
series:	Communications in Computer and Information Science, ISSN 1865-0929, eISSN 1865-0937; 492
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_18
language:	English
Book language:	English
abstract in english:	The paper discusses some current methodological issues related to the field of Information Literacy (IL). It aims firstly at discovering what qualitative procedures have actually been employed in the empirical investigations into various aspects of information literacy in years 2011-2014. Secondly, it seeks to categorize them into research methods, data collection techniques/data sources, analytical frameworks, etc. The paper is descriptive and exploratory in nature. A critical literature review has been the leading method. The EBSCO’s specialized database LISTA was searched to find articles reporting empirical research on different dimensions of information literacy. The main observation is that in years 2011-2014, as in the previous periods, the three methodologies (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods) have been used in the IL research. The preferred qualitative data sources were the focus group and individual interviews. As for conceptual frameworks, the information practice or people-in-practice as well as socio-cultural perspectives seem to be growing in importance.
keywords in english:	information literacy, qualitative research, methodology, XXI century
number of pulisher's sheets:	0,5
Conference:	The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) 2014; 2014-10-20; 2014-10-23; Dubrownik; Chorwacja; ; ; ;
affiliation:	Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej : Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Bibliotekoznawstwa
type:	chapter
subtype:	conference proceedings