While academic librarians frequently discuss critical thinking and its relationship to information literacy, the literature does not contain an abundance of sources on the topic. Therefore, this works provides a current and timely perspective on the possible roles of critical thinking within the library program. The work contains a variety of approaches likely to benefit the practicing librarian. It begins with a review of the literature, followed by theoretical approaches involving constructivism and the Socratic method. Readers will find pieces on the integration of critical thinking into the first-year experience and course-specific case studies, as well as a selection on a campus-wide critical thinking project. In each of the pieces, librarians are exploring new ways to meet their instructional goals, including the goal of teaching critical thinking skills to students across the curriculum.
This book was originally published as a special issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries .

Spencer, John S. (John Stuart); Millson-Martula, Christopher

John S. Spencer; Christopher Millson-Martula

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

London: Routledge

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, 2014

1, PT, 2009

vi, 258 pages : 24 cm
This work offers the practicing librarian innovative approaches to effectively integrating critical thinking into their instruction programs
Includes bibliographical references and index
The evolution of critical thinking skills in library instruction, 1986-2006: a selected and annotated bibliography and review of selected programs / Erin L. Ellis and Kara M. Whatley -- Promoting critical thinking skills in online information literacy instruction using a constructivist approach / Maryellen Allen -- Finding a Socratic method for information literacy instruction / Nicholas Schiller -- Step by step through the scholarly conversation: a collaborative library/writing faculty project to embed information literacy and promote critical thinking in first year composition at Oregon State University / Anne-Marie Deitering and Sara Jameson -- Advanced critical thinking and information literacy skills in first year college students / Mark Alfino, Michele Pajer, Linda Pierce, and Kelly O'Brien Jenks -- Modeling scholarly inquiry: one article at a time / Anne Marie Gruber, Mary Anne Knefel, and Paul Waelchli -- Critical thinking is a life relevancy: a Hospitality Management student case study / Monica Berger -- Information literacy in subject-specific vocabularies: a path to critical thinking / Linda Heichman Taylor -- Using Bloom's taxonomy to teach critical thinking skills to Business students / Nancy Nentl and Ruth Zietlow -- You can lead students to sources, but can you make them think? / Pamela Hayes-Bohanan and Elizabeth Spievak -- We won't be fooled again: teaching critical thinking via evaluation of hoax and historical revisionist websites in a library credit course / Stephanie M. Mathson and Michael G. Lorenzen -- Learning more about how they think: information literacy instruction in a campus-wide critical thinking project / Corey M. Johnson, Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, and Scott Walter

2023-06-28