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What's Social Justice Got To Do With Information Literacy?

ACRL 2017

CORA

CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments) is a pilot open access educational resource developed for faculty and librarians in higher education. It aspires to become a repository of user- contributed research and information literacy assignments.

Search for Assignments by:
Keywords Tags
  • social justice
  • racism
  • sexism
  • social issue
Please consider contributing an assignment. If you do submit an information literacy assignment with a social justice focus, please use the “social justice” tag.

Further Readings

Accardi, M. T., Drabinski, E., & Kumbier, A. (2010). Critical library instruction : theories and methods. Duluth, Minn. : Library Juice Press, 2010.

Accardi, M. T., & Vukovic, J. (2013). Feminist pedagogy for library instruction. Sacramento, California : Library Juice Press, 2013.

Adams, M., Bell, L. A., & Griffin, P. (2007). Teaching for diversity and social justice. New York : Routledge, c2007.

Battista, A., Ellenwood, D., Gregory, L., Higgins, S., Lilburn, J., Harker, Y. S., & Sweet, C. (2015). Seeing social justice in the ACRL framework. Communications In Information Literacy, 9(2), 111-125. Retrieved from http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=v9i2p111&path%5B%5D=214

Calvez, J. Y., & Massaro, T. (2003). Social Justice. In New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd ed., Vol. 13, pp. 242-244). Detroit: Gale.

Cimperman, M. (2015). Social analysis for the 21st century: How faith becomes action. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books.

Goodman, D. (2011). Promoting diversity and social justice: educating people from privileged groups. New York : Routledge, 2011.

Gregory, L., Higgins, S., & Samek, T. (2013). Information literacy and social justice : radical professional praxis. Sacramento, California : Library Juice Press, 2013.

Hinchliffe, L.J. and Saunders, L. (2015). Framing new frames: Expanding the conceptual space and boundaries. LOEX Fall Focus 2015. Retrieved from http://www.loexconference.org/ff2015/assets/LOEX%20Fall%202015_11.9.15_FIN.pdf (click here for powerpoint)

Holland, J., & Henriot, P. J. (1983). Social analysis: linking faith and justice. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books.

Holsinger, K. (2012). Teaching justice : solving social justice problems through university education. Farnham, England: Ashgate.
 
Jaeger, P. T., Taylor, N. G., & Gorham, U. (2015). Libraries, human rights, and social justice: Enabling access and promoting inclusion. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
 
Mathuews, K. (2016). Moving Beyond Diversity to Social Justice: A Call to Action for Academic Libraries. Progressive Librarian, (44), 6. Retrieved from http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/PL_Jnl/jnl_contents.shtml
 
Mezirow, J. (1990). Fostering critical reflection in adulthood : a guide to transformative and emancipatory learning. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1990.
 
Noble, S. U. (2013). Google search: Hyper-visibility as a means of rendering black women and girls invisible. InVisible Culture, (19).
 
Noble, S. U. & Tynes, B. (Eds). (2016). The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online. New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.

 

Noble, S. U. (2015, December 14). “Just Google It”: Algorithms of Oppression [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=omko_7CqVTA

 
Noble, S. U. (2012). Missed connections: What search engines say about women. Bitch Magazine, 54, 36-41.

 

Saunders, L.  (2017). Re-Framing Information Literacy for Social Justice. In Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L., & Çakmak, T. (Eds.), Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society: 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, October 10-13, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 56-65). Springer. (click here for Google Books preview)

 

Wright, D.E. (2015).  Active Learning: Social Justice Education and Participatory Action Research .  New York, NY: Routledge.

 

Safiya Umoja Noble - "Just Google It": Algorithms of Oppression