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How Primary Teachers in Greece Seek Information: Use and Initial Appraisal of Information Resources

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Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society (ECIL 2016)

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During the last decade methods and tools for information seeking (IS) have changed dramatically. In order to help students in their IS process teachers should be information literate themselves. There is a lack of research on teachers’ perceptions and patterns of IS. Only a few studies have focused on teachers’ information seeking behavior (ISB). The aim of the current study is to explore primary school teachers’ perceptions of information literacy (IL), their IL skills, the sources and tools they use to share information and their usage of libraries. The study contributes to the understanding of ISB of primary school teachers and identifies the main problems and challenges they face, and the knowledge and skills needed to teach IS. Furthermore, it provides an understanding of teachers’ views and beliefs concerning IL, the tools that they employ in order to educate students, the problems they encounter, as well as their perceptions about libraries.

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  1. Department of Library Science and Information Systems, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou, Ioanna-Ersi Pervolaraki, Rania Siatri & Georgia Zafeiriou

  2. Alcala University, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

    Emmanouel Garoufallou, Stavroula Antonopoulou & Ioanna-Ersi Pervolaraki

  3. American Farm School, Perrotis College, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stavroula Antonopoulou

  4. School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Sirje Virkus

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    Loriene Roy

  7. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Tolga Çakmak

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Garoufallou, E., Antonopoulou, S., Pervolaraki, IE., Siatri, R., Zafeiriou, G., Virkus, S. (2016). How Primary Teachers in Greece Seek Information: Use and Initial Appraisal of Information Resources. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_20

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