The people-in-practice perspective presented in this paper attempts to draw together my previous theorising about information literacy. In doing so, it offers an approach for understanding and researching information literacy - not as the outcome of skills, but as the outcome of co-location and co-participation, where people shape and inform their practices (including information literacy practice) and operationalise information skills, in agreed upon ways.
A people-in-practice perspective focuses on exploring the complexity of how people develop ways of knowing the information landscapes that constitutes their settings and practices. This requires a broader understanding and awareness about the conditions that enable, constrain or contest the circumstances of our practising and of our practices. It requires that we seek to understand how information literacy happens. This type of approach allows us to take a step back from the information skills approach in order to understand how information literacy is played out as an ongoing situated practice that reflects the arrangements of the site, through the saying, doings, and, the relatings ([11] Kemmis and Grootenboer, 2008) that orient people, their activities and practices towards one another and the material objects within their social setting. The entwinement of these conditions within a setting shape the collective, discursively produced agreements about what counts as information, what is agreed upon as knowledge, and the ways of knowing that are discursively authorised.
Embedding this rethinking of information literacy in ontological and epistemological terms, we are able to understand how information literacy happens and how that happening differs between settings. Working from a people-in-practice perspective allows us to see what people do, and why they do it and this in turn allows us to understand why information literacy happens in ways that are specific to the context
The people-in-practice perspective presented in this paper attempts to draw together my previous theorising about information literacy. In doing so, it offers an approach for understanding and researching information literacy - not as the outcome of skills, but as the outcome of co-location and co-participation, where people shape and inform their practices (including information literacy practice) and operationalise information skills, in agreed upon ways.
A people-in-practice perspective focuses on exploring the complexity of how people develop ways of knowing the information landscapes that constitutes their settings and practices. This requires a broader understanding and awareness about the conditions that enable, constrain or contest the circumstances of our practising and of our practices. It requires that we seek to understand how information literacy happens. This type of approach allows us to take a step back from the information skills approach in order to understand how information literacy is played out as an ongoing situated practice that reflects the arrangements of the site, through the saying, doings, and, the relatings ([11] Kemmis and Grootenboer, 2008) that orient people, their activities and practices towards one another and the material objects within their social setting. The entwinement of these conditions within a setting shape the collective, discursively produced agreements about what counts as information, what is agreed upon as knowledge, and the ways of knowing that are discursively authorised.
Embedding this rethinking of information literacy in ontological and epistemological terms, we are able to understand how information literacy happens and how that happening differs between settings. Working from a people-in-practice perspective allows us to see what people do, and why they do it and this in turn allows us to understand why information literacy happens in ways that are specific to the context
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