Yesterday I wrote about my growing awareness on Information Literacy (IL). These ideas are still shifting and growing as I continue to read about the various models, maybe I am displaying my IL here. Bruce, Edwards & Lupton, (2007) relational frame suggests that viewing the content in this manner ‘helps students discover new ways of seeing’. The question remains though, what impact will IL make on me as TL? What is my role in teaching and learning in this manner? The article by Bruce, Edwards & Lupton (2007) Six Frames for Information literacy Education: a conceptual framework for interpreting the relationships between theory and practice, details a specific model for IL that I found intriguing. They theorise that there are six frames for looking at IL and these differ according to the context and the purpose that is required at the time. After reading about these various frames I realise I am drawn to two in particular, the learning to learn frame and the social impact frame. The article suggests that we tend to work with the frame that we identify with the most (Bruce, Edwards & Lupton, 2007). My teaching to date, especially in VCAL, has no doubt, influenced my tendency to lean to these particular frames, as this is how this subject is taught. The challenge as pointed out in the article, is that, just as people see teaching and learning differently so too, they see IL differently (Bruce, Edwards & Lupton, 2007). I can this as an issue in my role as a TL in the future. I hope to find opportunities to work collaboratively with my fellow teachers, I may have developed a tendency to use IL though one frame, and the teacher, even subconsciously, may lean toward another. It will be up to me as the Tl to bridge this gap. Though as pointed out in the article, it will help develop my professional practice to adopt a different frame occasionally (Bruce, Edwards & Lupton, (2007). I quiet like the Six Frames for IL model, it makes practical sense to me.

References

Bruce, C., Edwards, C., & Lupton, M. (2007). Six frames for information literacy education. In S. Andretta (Ed.). Change and challenge: Information literacy for the 21st century. DOI: 10.11120/ital.2006.05010002