Applying a critical pedagogical perspective to information literacy standards

Community and Junior College Libraries

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 65-77

  Swanson, Troy A ^a  

^a Moraine Valley Comm College Library   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical pedagogy; Information literacy; Information literacy standards; Paulo Freire; Social reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011236251     PISSN: 02763915     EISSN: 15452522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J107v12n04_08     Document Type: Article

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