A pesquisa trata da relação entre dispositivos culturais (bibliotecas) e a constituição de saberes informacionais atitudinais, em especial (mas não exclusivamente), por crianças e jovens. A abordagem da questão decorre de indagações sobre diferentes tendências observadas em torno das chamadas literacias informacionais e da aprendizagem pela pesquisa. O objetivo é identificar o papel de dispositivos culturais nos processos de construção de atitudes face ao conhecimento. A metodologia foi desenvolvida sob dois eixos: pesquisa bibliográfica e pesquisa de campo na Estação do Conhecimento Einstein- Paraisópolis, que implicou a escolha de um objeto empírico de análise: o Programa Aprendendo a Pesquisar (PAP). Além disso, a pesquisa teve abordagem e participação no contexto internacional, em diálogo com pesquisadores francófonos e profissionais que atuam nas Bibliotecas Públicas da cidade de Rennes, França. Os resultados indicam a possibilidade de reinvenção da noção de pesquisa como relação significativa dos atos de conhecer e de criar conhecimento, considerando os aspectos cognitivos, afetivos e conativos dos sujeitos no contexto do dispositivo cultural dialógico. Concluímos que a redefinição do caráter e dos modos de relação com o saber podem atuar a favor da construção de convicções internas, a serem explicitadas por ações afirmativas dos sujeitos (protagonismo cultural), fazendo frente às dinâmicas utilitaristas, procedimentais e pragmáticas que marcam nossa época, sobretudo, pela noção de competitividade pelo conhecimento, que tem marcado práticas no contexto das bibliotecas. / The research adresses the relation between cultural devices (libraries) and the constitution of attitudinal information knowledges, in special (but not exclusively), by children and young people. The approach of the question stems from inquiries about different tendencies observed around the so called informational literacies and the learning from research. The objective is to identify the role of cultural devices in the processes of construction of attitudes face to the knowledge. The methodology was developed under two axes: bibliographic research and field research in the Estação do Conhecimento Einstein-Paraisópolis, which implied the selection of an empiric object of analysis: the \"Learning to Research Program\" (Programa Aprendendo a Pesquisar (PAP). Furthermore, the research has had approach and participation in the international context, in dialogue with francophone researchers and professionals who act in Public Libraries in the city of Rennes, France. The results indicate the possibility of reinvention of the notion of research as significant relation of the acts of knowing and creating knowledge, considering the cognitive, affective and conative aspects of the subjects in the context of the dialogical cultural device. We conclude that the redefinition of the character and of the means of relation with knowing can act in favor of the construction of internal convictions, to be explicit by affirmative actions of the subjects (cultural protagonism), facing the utilitarian, procedural and pragmatic dynamics that mark our time, above all, for the notion of competitiveness for knowledge, that has been marking practices in the context of the libraries.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA RAQUEL GOMES DA SILVA.pdf: 4744339 bytes, checksum: 9fb594ad01da186a0439981d15b9b154 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-26 / This research thesis focuses on the relationship between the elementary school reader and the digital library, so that relevant information relative to literary formation can be accessed and easily managed by the student. This investigation can be characterized as a dynamic approach to Systemic and Integral Action Research (PAIS: Pesquisa-Ação Integral e Sistêmica). This forms part of Anthropological Pedagogy that has as its object an educational process that involves the principles of Anthropology and Pedagogy. Consequently, we have a methodological proposal of research action of the educational act in the classroom assessed by the library. The interpretation of this data considers the signs, indications, and evidence of the CEPAE-UFG Elementary School, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil (Centro de Ensino e Pesquisa Aplicada à Educação - Universidade Federal de Goiás-Brasil). It also takes into account the schools physical structure: classrooms, school library, computer rooms. The interpretation of the data of this experience was based on categorical analysis relative to the following concepts: reader, information literacy, and information literacy applied to literature. The latter were the reference and object of researchers investigation. Conceptual approaches relative to information literacy and information literacy applied to literature, reader, and the reading of literature were thus constructed. So as to define the concepts of reader and reading, the theoretical works of Wolfgang Iser and Antonio Cândido were pursued. On literacy, literary and informational, Magda Soares, Jack Goody & Ian Watt, John R. Bormuth, Graça Paulino, Egon de Oliveira Rangel, Bernadete Campello, Kelly Cristine G.D. Gasque and Carol C. Kuhlthau were relied on. The readers experience, successes and failures, through dialogue, amidst a theoretical approach and results that have been evidenced along a journey with the students of the sixth grade classes of CEPAE-UFG Elementary School has been discerned. This allowed us to identify the practice of literary and informational reading in the classroom and library environment. / Esta pesquisa tem como foco investigar a relação do leitor escolar com a biblioteca digital para acessar e manejar informações relevantes relativas à sua formação literária. Trata-se de um estudo caracterizado como Pesquisa-Ação Integral e Sistêmica (PAIS), numa abordagem dinâmica. A Antropopedagogia tem como objeto um processo educativo que envolve os princípios da Antropologia e os da Pedagogia. Daí, a proposta metodológica da pesquisa-ação do ato educativo em sala de aula junto à biblioteca, cuja interpretação dos dados leva em conta indícios, sinais e pistas na escola Centro de Ensino e Pesquisa Aplicada à Educação, da Universidade Federal de Goiás-Brasil e seus espaços: sala de aula, biblioteca escolar e sala de informática. O processamento e a análise dos dados da experiência foram realizados a partir de categorias de análise fundamentadas na concepção relativa aos conceitos: leitor, leitura literária, letramento informacional e literário, tendo como referência os objetivos desta investigação. Foram estabelecidas aproximações conceituais relativas a letramento informacional e literário, leitor e leitura literária. Para delimitar os conceitos leitor e leitura, recorremos aos teóricos Wolfgang Iser e Antônio Candido; sobre letramento, letramento literário e informacional contamos com Magda Soares, Jack Goody e Ian Watt, John R. Bormuth, Graça Paulino e Egon de Oliveira Rangel, Bernadete Campello, Kelley Cristine G. D. Gasque e Carol C. Kuhlthau. Identificamos a experiência do leitor, seus caminhos e seus descaminhos, mediante diálogo entre a abordagem teórica e os resultados evidenciados ao longo da experiência compartilhada com duas turmas do 6º ano do ensino fundamental, do CEPAE-UFG, o que permitiu identificar a prática de leitura literária e informacional no âmbito da sala de aula e da biblioteca.

Num contexto de avanços tecnológicos, a emergência do digital no contemporâneo conectado se apresenta por meio de novas práticas, costumes e relações entre as pessoas e as Plataformas Digitais. Assim, a presente tese de doutorado se insere na interface entre Comunicação e Educação como campo privilegiado para discussões e estudos em busca desses entendimentos. Apesar de grandes avanços em pesquisas nessa área, existe, ainda hoje, um grande eco em relação às novas linguagens oferecidas pelos aparatos eletrônicos e à capacidade de assimilação pelas gerações dos educadores e seus educandos. Dessa maneira propõe-se a inclusão dos Jogos Digitais no debate, a partir de sua presença no cotidiano dos estudantes, seja por meio de seu crescimento mercadológico ou mesmo pela ludicidade, característica presente em todos os jogos e que se materializa nas aulas de Educação Física. Nessa conjuntura, ainda se consideram escassos os estudos que abordam as habilidades e/ou competências necessárias aos indivíduos para lidarem com essas plataformas, aqui incluídos os Jogos Digitais, ainda mais em se tratando do público escolhido para essa pesquisa, os professores de Educação Física. Tomando então, o \"Currículo MIL para formação de professores\" proposto pela UNESCO como referência, essa tese objetivou mapear as Literacias de Mídia e Informação (MIL) dos professores de Educação Física em seus ambientes educacionais. Com a adoção de protocolos multimetodológicos como questionários, entrevistas e o uso das técnicas de análise de conteúdo para apreciação dos resultados, concluiu-se que, apesar dos professores de Educação Física de São Paulo não utilizarem os Jogos Digitais em suas aulas, estes são considerados pelos mesmos como meios de comunicação e reconhecidos por seu caráter influenciador e abrangente que representam em nosso cotidiano. Além disso, propõe-se que o entendimento das competências sugeridas pelo \"Currículo MIL para formação de professores\" da UNESCO sejam utilizadas como alternativa integradora para a compreensão do conceito de MIL como caminho para ampliar olhares e estratégias mantendo seu viés crítico, mas também estimulando os docentes a se engajarem com as possibilidades que as Plataformas Digitais, os Jogos Digitais e demais mídias podem oferecer à prática docente e formação para uma participação cívica plena na sociedade contemporânea. / In the technological advances context of, the emergency of digital in the connected contemporary is presented through new practices, customs and relationships between people and Digital Platforms. Thus, the present doctoral thesis is inserted in the interface between Communication and Education as a privileged field for discussions and studies in search of these understandings. Despite of the great advances in research made in this area, there is still a great echo regarding the new languages offered by electronic devices and the assimilation capacity of educators and their students. In this way, it is proposed to include Digital Games in the debate, based on their presence in the students\' daily life, through their market growth and playfulness, a characteristic that is present in all games and materialized in physical education classes. At this juncture, the studies that approach the necessary skills and / or competences necessary for individuals to deal with these platforms, here included the Digital Games, are still considered scarce, even more when it comes to the target audience of this research: Physical Education teachers. Using the \"Media and Information Literacy (MIL) curriculum for teacher\" suggested by UNESCO as reference, this thesis aimed to map the MIL of Physical Education teachers in their educational environments. With the adoption of multimethodological protocols such as questionnaires, interviews and the use of content analysis techniques to evaluate the results, it was concluded that, although Physical Education teachers in São Paulo do not use Digital Games in their classes, they considered the these games as means of communication and they recognize that rhe Digital Games are influential and that they have a comprehensive character in our daily life. In addition, it is proposed that the competences suggested by the UNESCO\'s \"MIL Curriculum for teachers\" should be used as an integrating alternative to the understanding of the MIL\'s concept to broaden perspectives and strategies while maintain their critical bias but also stimulate teachers to engage with the possibilities that Digital Platforms, Digital Games and other media can offer to teaching practices and training for fully civic participation in the contemporary society.

A pesquisa trata da relação entre dispositivos culturais (bibliotecas) e a constituição de saberes informacionais atitudinais, em especial (mas não exclusivamente), por crianças e jovens. A abordagem da questão decorre de indagações sobre diferentes tendências observadas em torno das chamadas literacias informacionais e da aprendizagem pela pesquisa. O objetivo é identificar o papel de dispositivos culturais nos processos de construção de atitudes face ao conhecimento. A metodologia foi desenvolvida sob dois eixos: pesquisa bibliográfica e pesquisa de campo na Estação do Conhecimento Einstein- Paraisópolis, que implicou a escolha de um objeto empírico de análise: o Programa Aprendendo a Pesquisar (PAP). Além disso, a pesquisa teve abordagem e participação no contexto internacional, em diálogo com pesquisadores francófonos e profissionais que atuam nas Bibliotecas Públicas da cidade de Rennes, França. Os resultados indicam a possibilidade de reinvenção da noção de pesquisa como relação significativa dos atos de conhecer e de criar conhecimento, considerando os aspectos cognitivos, afetivos e conativos dos sujeitos no contexto do dispositivo cultural dialógico. Concluímos que a redefinição do caráter e dos modos de relação com o saber podem atuar a favor da construção de convicções internas, a serem explicitadas por ações afirmativas dos sujeitos (protagonismo cultural), fazendo frente às dinâmicas utilitaristas, procedimentais e pragmáticas que marcam nossa época, sobretudo, pela noção de competitividade pelo conhecimento, que tem marcado práticas no contexto das bibliotecas. / The research adresses the relation between cultural devices (libraries) and the constitution of attitudinal information knowledges, in special (but not exclusively), by children and young people. The approach of the question stems from inquiries about different tendencies observed around the so called informational literacies and the learning from research. The objective is to identify the role of cultural devices in the processes of construction of attitudes face to the knowledge. The methodology was developed under two axes: bibliographic research and field research in the Estação do Conhecimento Einstein-Paraisópolis, which implied the selection of an empiric object of analysis: the \"Learning to Research Program\" (Programa Aprendendo a Pesquisar (PAP). Furthermore, the research has had approach and participation in the international context, in dialogue with francophone researchers and professionals who act in Public Libraries in the city of Rennes, France. The results indicate the possibility of reinvention of the notion of research as significant relation of the acts of knowing and creating knowledge, considering the cognitive, affective and conative aspects of the subjects in the context of the dialogical cultural device. We conclude that the redefinition of the character and of the means of relation with knowing can act in favor of the construction of internal convictions, to be explicit by affirmative actions of the subjects (cultural protagonism), facing the utilitarian, procedural and pragmatic dynamics that mark our time, above all, for the notion of competitiveness for knowledge, that has been marking practices in the context of the libraries.

Today’s complex and rapidly developed media landscape has brought a greater need for Media and Information Literacy. In order to live and express one’s opinion in a democratic society, it is considered a requisite to possess the skills that Media and Information literacy carries. This requisite mostly concerns the younger generation, since they are the ones growing up in today's media landscape.   Many studies have shown that Media and Information Literacy is connected to civic engagement in various ways. Yet we have not encountered studies with Media and Information Literacy in correlation to civic engagement for a social issue. Therefore, the study will initially describe the main terminology and abilities concerning Media and Information literacy, this through a model formed by Renee Hobbs. Thereafter, the study presents how the abilities of what the model implicates execute in a civic engagement concerning a social issue.   The study is conducted on eight adolescents in 9th grade at a school in Småland, using a qualitative method with semi-structured interviews. The result showed us that the abilities presented in the model, were practiced on a daily basis in the adolescent’s life in different ways. Further, it showed that the abilities played a significant role in order exert civic engagement. Interestingly it showed us that the social context was a remarkable reason for the adolescents to engage together.

The amount of information in the world has grown exponentially in the last generation. Students often believe that growing up as digital natives means they have advanced information literacy skills. However, school librarians are not seeing evidence of this in their schools. The purpose of this study was to determine if secondary students overestimate their information literacy (IL) abilities, if relationships exist between IL self-efficacy and performance, and if grade level or self-efficacy level changes those relationships. To accomplish this, data were collected from two middle schools and three high schools from a total of 397 students in grades 6, 9, and 12. Students completed the Information Literacy Self-efficacy Scale (ILSES) and the Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (TRAILS) to measure their IL self-efficacy and performance. The data were examined as a whole, by grade level, by self-efficacy level, and by a breakdown of combined self-efficacy level and grade level. Analyses involved t-tests, bivariate correlations, and hierarchical linear regression. Results showed that all groups overestimated their IL abilities and that the overestimation increased as self-efficacy level increased. In addition, correlations provided evidence of a relationship between IL self-efficacy and performance for each grade level and for each self-efficacy level. Another finding was that in all grade levels, higher self-efficacy equated to higher performance, however, for a large percent of students, high self-efficacy equated with lower scores. Grade level did have an effect on the relationship between IL self-efficacy and performance. This effect showed statistical and practical significance when grade level was used as a covariate but only practical significance when used as a moderating variable. Overall, ninth graders showed a dip in performance when compared to sixth and twelfth grades.

1 online resource (xii, 184 leaves) : illustrations / A high level of literacy is essential if a child is to be employable and determines the role a person will play in the globalised information age. In South Africa the literacy levels, including reading levels, of school children is extremely low. The study forms part of a longitudinal reading and literacy intervention project undertaken over a five year period in two disadvantaged primary schools in an urban township. The project focused on capacity building and resource building of the school community including the teachers, learners, school librarians and parents. This dissertation describes an action research study that focused specifically on setting up school libraries in each of these schools and the professional development of the teachers in order to contribute to the teaching and learning practices in the schools. It offers critical reflections on the process and findings and contributes to research on school libraries in South Africa. / Information Science / M. Inf. (Information Science)

<p>&nbsp / This study supports the need for information literacy training for first year or new incoming Community and Health Science (CHS) students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and describes the use of a collaborative framework for integrating information literacy into the undergraduate studentsʹ curriculum and for assessing the results. The Collaborative Information Literacy Model (CILM) provided the guidelines for a more structured and fuller collaboration between the librarian and the lecturer responsible for the first year Physiotherapy students. The collaborative partnership employed strategies to teach information literacy competencies which were significantly more satisfactory with the studentsʹ abilities to successfully complete a research term paper. The process of integration began with developing learning outcomes, an information literacy program, exercises and an assessment instrument for evaluating student performance. Also emphasized is the on-going exchange of expertise between the librarian and the lecturer to enhance library-related components in the design of the program.</p>

The purpose of this study was to investigate the status and practice of information literacy in Tanzania's four universities with the primary intention of establishing the foundation for appropriate strategies that could be adopted when introducing or developing information literacy programmes into higher learning institutions in Tanzania that are systematic, effective and capable of fostering adequate information literacy knowledge and skills in students. Information literacy is a set of skills and knowledge that allows people to find, evaluate, and use the information that they need. These skills also help people filter and synthesise the information they encounter so that they can use that which is useful and meaningful. Information literacy knowledge and skills are the necessary tools that help people successfully find their way in the present and future field of information. The importance of information literacy is based on the fact that technological developments of the 21st century require that people in all walks of life acquire information literacy knowledge and skills so as to be able to adjust, cope, work and function compatibly with various changes that are taking place in all aspect of daily life and human activities. In the academic arena information literacy enables students to become competent and independent learners because they acquire the knowledge and skills to know their own information needs and an ability to manage the tools of technology gives access to relevant information, for communication and to problem solving. Tanzania is a developing country, where the school library system has a very poor infrastructure in terms of resources. This situation denies school leavers the opportunity to acquire appropriate knowledge and the skills required to use various information resources. Systematic information literacy intervention at all educational levels is vital not only for learning independence and academic performance but also for life-long learning skills. The data for this study were collected from Sokoine University of Agriculture, University of Dar-Es-Salaam, Iringa University College and Saint Augustine University of Tanzania. Self-administered questionnaires were used together with data from 358 teaching staff, 25 librarians and 664 students and interviews were conducted with three Deputy Vice Chancellors (Academic), 12 Faculty Deans, two Library Directors and one Library Head. In addition data were also collected through observation. The study found that although the four universities' librarians provide some form of information literacy instruction, using a combination of methods that include orientation, lectures, hands-on practice and web-page, this instruction was not effective in fostering the required information literacy knowledge and skills in students. Thus the study established that most students lack adequate skills in the use of both electronic and non-electronic information sources. The study also established a number of impediments that are linked to the non-effectiveness of information instruction. The researcher considered the lack of an explicit information literacy policy, to provide guidance and directives on how information literacy activities should be conducted, as the main barrier to information literacy activities in the universities studied. Lack of an information literacy policy led to the existing information literacy programmes not being allocated official time within the university timetable, hence they were being attended by students on a voluntary basis. Lack of a formalised programme and inadequate resources are also among the factors that contribute to the ineffectiveness. However, the study found that the potential opportunity for conducting information literacy in a more systematic and effective manner can be created through involving teaching staff in infoffi1ation literacy activities and integrating information literacy into the mainstream curriculum. / SUA-NORAD.

<p>&nbsp / This study supports the need for information literacy training for first year or new incoming Community and Health Science (CHS) students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and describes the use of a collaborative framework for integrating information literacy into the undergraduate studentsʹ curriculum and for assessing the results. The Collaborative Information Literacy Model (CILM) provided the guidelines for a more structured and fuller collaboration between the librarian and the lecturer responsible for the first year Physiotherapy students. The collaborative partnership employed strategies to teach information literacy competencies which were significantly more satisfactory with the studentsʹ abilities to successfully complete a research term paper. The process of integration began with developing learning outcomes, an information literacy program, exercises and an assessment instrument for evaluating student performance. Also emphasized is the on-going exchange of expertise between the librarian and the lecturer to enhance library-related components in the design of the program.</p>