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Literacy Curriculum in Arts and Humanities
Clare Scott (Library), Professor Penny Simons (Languages and
Cultures)
What is this about?
This session will explain how the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Directors of Learning & Teaching worked strategically with the Faculty
Librarian and the Library to embed information literacy skills in the Level 1
academic curriculum. We will discuss the benefits of working collaboratively
and strategically to give our students the tools they need to develop from
learners into independent researchers by targeting our interventions around
specific student assignments. Our pedagogical approach is based on an action
research model, the SCONUL seven pillars model and ANCIL (Secker, J. &
Coonan, E. (2011) A New Curriculum for Information Literacy.) We successfully
streamlined the Information Literacy tuition across the whole of Level 1, to
ensure a consistent and supported experience for all first year students in the
Faculty. We will explain how we achieved strategic buy-in from all
parties, our progress to date and our future plans for developing information
literacy together.
How will colleagues
benefit?
We will draw out a set of factors for successful partnership
working which will be applicable in other areas of strategic change; this
will include how we used the Faculty structure to achieve our goals, how we
shared responsibility between Library and academic staff and how we worked to
get buy-in from all interested parties.
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