Information literacy: A retrospective of the literature

Abstract

This chapter discusses infmmation litE~racy within an Australian educationalcontext by reviewing significant events, publications, and academic literature.The paper touches on how historical roots have influenced academic discomse oninfonnation literacy within the field of education, and subsequently, its prevalencewithin the cunent primary and secondary education sectors. Terminology used todescribe similar information literacy skills and attributes is summarised, as is acomprehensive defmition of the term information literacy. This chapter concludes byadvocating for fmther research on investigating students' infonnation literacy skillsand abilities, teachers' content knowledg~! of infonnation literacy, and the teachingand assessment of information literacy skills, specifically within the primaty andsecondaty education sectors.

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