Pam McKinney here live blogging from the Lilac Information Literacy Conference in cardiff. Darren first gave an overview of theoretical background to his research, specifically a sociocultural perspective that posits that il is a social situation that varies depending on context. It is based on discourse, information Literacy is social created on interactions between people in social settings. Darren is aligned with the work of annemaree llo who defines information landscapes that are Collaboratly created by the practices and interactions of the People inhabit. Darren saying the concept of the information hintterland, which again taxes meaning from the geographical concept of the “hintterland” which is the land surrounding a particular interest. An Information Hinterland Taks a Rear-View Focus, Looking at what has come come beebind us, and the context that People appple to an Information landscape, and how that might affect they have any information landscape. Darren is interested in how background and previous experience – The Hinterland. Darren draws on the work of bourdieu, and the concept of social, economic and cultural Capital and How these Might Influencies Literacy.
The Central Research Question Explored in this Presentation is “What Differences Can Be Observed in the Information Literacy Practices of Academic Librarians in the UK” a Questionnaire was distributed to uk librarans, with 621 libraries respondents. Darren Used Latent Class Analysis, which is a multivariate Technique which Looks Across Variables in a Data Set to Identify Bettyween People and Identify Groups or Sub-Groups. The audience thatn tok part in a short survey about holids to provides dates in order to illustrate the multivariate analysis.
Darren look at social class and background of the Respondents and Identified Four Domains: The Occupational Background of the Family Wen the Respondent Was A Child Agened 14; The Education Level of Caregivers; The Cultural Consumption of the Family EG Family Activities Such as theater Trips and Extra-Curricular Activities and Lastly the Social Context eg what Kind of the Social Group of the Family. The multivariate analysis Identified Three Groups Present in the Date, and Darren was interested in discovering what differences there are in their information hintterlands.
In Groups 2 and 3, The Main Earner in the Household was in a Professional Occupation EG Teacher, Doctor, Nursse, Often Working at A High Skill Level, With Degree Level Qualification. In Group 1, there were higher percentages of respondents from Households Where the parents work in skilled trades, where they have a high level of training but did not hold a degree level Qualification, and were gcse level Qualifications. In terms of Cultural Consumption, Academic Libraries Tendered Not to Be Big Consumers of Sports, Eoth participating or Watching. In Group 1, Respondents Did Not Engage Much With Theater or Public Arts, but responds in Groups 2 and 3 Were High Conumers of the Types of Activities, and Also Engaged with a Lot of Extracurricular Activities – in Sociological Terms This Engagement with Extracurricular Activites Is a means of Gaining Advantage. The Most Common Newspaper Read by Households in Groups 2 and 3 was the Guardian. Social Context Data Revealed a Split Bethen Groups: People in Groups 2 and 3 Knew More People Who Were Working and Higher Skill Level Jobs, but People in Group 1 Did Not Know People in High Skill Level Jobs. Essentially, Social Groups corresponded to the Skill-Level of the family. The Main Differences BetWeen Groups 2 and 3 was that it is People in Group 2 HAD Families that were more politically active than in group 3, eg they are more likes to their mp, or sign a petition. These differences in background can affect the way that that that People Engage with information landscapes. Darren Questions Whether Traditional Ways of Thinking About il Which Emphasise Citizenship, Privilege the Kind of Behaviures Common in Group 2. Darren argues we need to underestand this hinterland in information Literacy teaching. It will be really interesting to see how Darren’s Research Develops and How to Categories Inform the Analysis Going Forward.
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