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Information literacy as a concept is often thought of in the dimensions of being a functional competency. This paper aims to contribute to the critique of the limitations such an approach may imply and explores a different, critical approach. If IL is perceived as a concept that enables learning, and empowers learners through acquired understanding, then we should also ask: What kind of learning is to be enabled? It is because of that question that we aim to analyze the pedagogical process that is inherent to information literacy from the viewpoint of transformative education. We undertake an analysis of concepts in which we examine the transformative learning theory as conceived by its author Jack Mezirow and its subsequent critique. Transformative learning is examined through the connections drawn with information literacy made by Andrew Whitworth and is cross-examined with his outlook of critical information literacy.
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Kos, D., Špiranec, S. (2014). Debating Transformative Approaches to Information Literacy Education: A Critical Look at the Transformative Learning Theory. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_45
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