*Political Science

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

“Information literacy is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning.”

In a more broad reflection, it may be that what matters is not the identity of who takes charge of making IL an important component of the political science education. What matters is simply that somebody does, and that this vital part of the twenty-first-century university curriculum does not, as Fister (2021) warned, remain hopelessly located both everywhere and nowhere.The alternative is bleak: if students of political science cannot cultivate a critical relationship with information, what hope is there for the rest of society? - Everywhere and Nowhere: Information Literacy in the Political Science Classroom (2022) Stephen Thornton, Cardiff University, Wales Douglas B. Atkinson, University of Salzburg, Austria