id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt pipe-0073 Rebecca Halpern #DitchTheSurvey: Expanding Methodological Diversity in LIS Research 2015 .html text/html 8423 390 48 There is less attention given to considerations of the ways that political, social, economic, and cultural power structures and relations are reflected by or are challenged by this approach to information literacy (although his discussion does not entirely exclude these concerns).12 A Critical Information Literacy Perspective on Threshold Concept Theory It is a main tenet of critical information literacy that information literacy instruction should resist the tendency to reinforce and reproduce hegemonic knowledge, and instead nurture students’ understandings of how information and knowledge are formed by unequal power relations based on class, race, gender, and sexuality. Whether or not one accepts their conclusion, one can take their description of the situation of the activist scholar and apply it to critical information literacy, whose practitioners should always be aware of the reifying and recuperative functions of information literacy in the academy. cache/pipe-0073.html txt/pipe-0073.txt