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The drama of information literacy: Collaborating to incorporate information literacy into a theatre history curriculum
- Author
- Dianna E. Sachs & Michael J. Duffy IV
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Abstract
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Information literacy (IL) has been studied extensively, but little has been written about IL applied to the study of theater. This study addresses that lacuna by evaluating the success of a librarian-faculty collaboration to integrate IL throughout a year-long course of study. Using a pre- and post-test methodology, researchers assessed students’ knowledge on a range of IL concepts. The results were used to modify the IL curriculum to place greater emphasis on IL concepts that students struggled with, and to de-emphasize IL concepts for which students demonstrated adequate incoming knowledge. This paper will provide recommendations for librarians and other instructors seeking to integrate IL concepts into a theater (or other performing arts) curriculum.
- Keywords
- Media and Information Literacy
- Tags
- Critical thinking
- PGDMIL Course
- C06 – Media, Information and Empowerment
- PGDMIL Block
- C06-B4: Implementation of MIL Strategies
- Has Part
- C06-U15: Assessment of MIL Competencies
- Corpus Status
- Accepted – In Corpus