Posts Tagged ‘critical pedagogy’
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We Used Problem-Based Learning in Library Instruction and Came to Question Its Treatment of Students
August 9, 2017 | 2 commentsTags: banking concept, critical librarianship, critical pedagogy, group work, Problem-Based Learning, student centeredIn Brief: Two instruction librarians at a medium-sized liberal-arts college on the East Coast of the United States replaced their lecture-style teaching with Problem-Based Learning (PBL). They collaborated with two English instructors to bring PBL to a two-session sequence of library instruction. However, the more they used PBL, and the more they read about how…
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Critical Pedagogy, Critical Conversations: Expanding Dialogue about Critical Library Instruction through the Lens of Composition and Rhetoric
December 7, 2016 | 2 commentsTags: academic libraries, composition and rhetoric, critical information literacy, critical pedagogy, information literacyIn Brief: As interest among academic librarians in critical pedagogy has grown, discussions about this concept and its implications for librarianship have been richly expanding our ways of conceiving of library instruction and of our (librarians’) instructional roles. At the same time, this concept is still a relatively new one for our field. We may…