The dynamic information context is challenging school communities to calibrate their ways of understanding information literacy. However empirical research reports a lack of shared understanding and vision around information literacy that is negatively impacting its development. The solution it is argued is to increase the level of multi stakeholder dialogue about the information literacy phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to create a platform for dialogue within an international school community by identifying and comparing conceptions of information literacy across multiple stakeholder groups to proactively inform information literacy practice. Working within the qualitative paradigm and invoking a phenomenographic methodological approach the research drew from a trans-disciplinary theoretical background in the information, management and education sciences. Using recorded focus group discussions stakeholders including students, parents, teachers, library staff, IT personnel, administration and leadership shared their perceptions of the information context as a stepping stone to sharing their conceptions of information literacy. The findings show that stakeholder groups perceived the information context to be characterised by environmental, social human and affective dimensions; that stakeholders did not hold one singular conception of information literacy but rather they shared a series of conceptions of information literacy to varying degrees, and that the variation in the ways information literacy was conceptualised prevailed across three continuums namely the individual-collective, affective-cognitive and competency–personal mastery continuums. Furthermore, the comparative analysis of the series of conceptions of information literacy created the opportunity to develop a model of the common ground of conceptual understanding of information literacy thereby making an original contribution to knowledge. The study provides compelling insights for information literacy practitioners recommending that a shared conceptual understanding of information literacy requires accommodating its complex socio-contextual nature and anchoring that understanding in the philosophical, pedagogical and strategic thinking of the learning community.

Le dialogue des juges recouvre plusieurs réalités. L'aspect qui est étudié ici est le dialogue qui s'instaure entre la Cour de cassation et les autres juges : nationaux, européens, internationaux et étrangers. Ce dialogue se fait à travers la décision de justice, qui est désormais accessible et diffusée dans le monde entier grâce à internet et aux sites de la juridiction. Ce phénomène, appelé aussi " influence croisée des jurisprudences ", prend naissance avec l'expansion de la science comparative et commence à se manifester dans la jurisprudence de la Haute juridiction judiciaire. Encore en voie de développement, le dialogue des juges n'est pas sans produire certaines conséquences quant à la place de la Cour de cassation sur la scène nationale, mais aussi sur la scène internationale. Par ailleurs, il devrait se révéler prochainement comme un nouvel instrument au service des magistrats.

Le dialogue des juges recouvre plusieurs réalités. L'aspect qui est étudié ici est le dialogue qui s'instaure entre la Cour de cassation et les autres juges : nationaux, européens, internationaux et étrangers. Ce dialogue se fait à travers la décision de justice, qui est désormais accessible et diffusée dans le monde entier grâce à internet et aux sites de la juridiction. Ce phénomène, appelé aussi « influence croisée des jurisprudences », prend naissance avec l'expansion de la science comparative et commence à se manifester dans la jurisprudence de la Haute juridiction judiciaire. Encore en voie de développement, le dialogue des juges n'est pas sans produire certaines conséquences quant à la place de la Cour de cassation sur la scène nationale, mais aussi sur la scène internationale. Par ailleurs, il devrait se révéler prochainement comme un nouvel instrument au service des magistrats. / The dialogue between judges covers several realities. The aspect studied in this thesis is the dialogue between the French Court of Cassation and the other judges: national, European, international and foreign judges. This dialogue between judges takes place through the courts decisions which can be available and read on internet. This phenomenon is recent and was born with the growth of the comparative science. We can establish that the dialogue between judges in France is going to grow in a near future. We can also see that the dialogue between judges as already made some consequences. First, it has given a new place for the French court in the national and international stage. Then, it can be used as an actual instrument for judges.