From the conceptual framework of anthropology and sociology, collective practices are considered any system of coordination and orientation which includes ideologies, social representations, action strategies, mechanisms of collective decision-making, and organizational structures which puts people in a certain mode of relation with the other social actors in the social field.
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Trends in Information Literacy Programmes to Empower People and Communities: Social Technologies Supporting New Citizen Needs
José-Antonio Gómez-Hernández (University of Murcia, Spain) and Tomás Saorín (University of Murcia, Spain)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch019
Abstract
It is explained how an understanding of information literacy programs should evolve to empower people and communities. These programmes, it is suggested, would serve as training in those types of social technologies that enhance the capability of self-organization, social and democratic influence, alternative systems of consumption and services, and so on. Keeping in mind the social and technological attempts to face situations of scarcity caused by the present European economic crisis, the framework of this approach is in the main documents of the European Union concerning citizenship skills, as well as in social demands on open government (transparency, participation and collaboration). Based on the absence or inadequacy of the issues in the syllabi of most information literacy programmes, guidelines are suggested in order that they may be promoted by library systems and other public networks of socio-educational action, emphasizing learning for social innovation.