Information literacy: A positivist epistemology and a politics of outformation

Educational Theory

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-53

  Kapitzke, Cushla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 24944525969     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2003.00037.x     Document Type: Article

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