Mark
You may be interested in the CILIP definition and annotated list of skills
or competencies now available on the CILIP website:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/professionalguidance/informationliteracy/definitio
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and reported (and detailed) by me and others in the latest Update.
I'm not sure they provide an answer to your larger question, and I'm not
sure that I completely agree with your view of IL as non-generic. I
suppose that I would suggest that while your different groups may learn
differently, view IL differently, and view different aspects of IL as
particularly relevant or important to their situation, this does not
change/reduce the overall knowledge base that is IL. Clearly (?), training
has to be related to learning needs but IL skills remain IL skills.
MH> Information literacy, although following broad similarities, has
> distinct characteristics in terms of knowledge, attitudes and skills
> according to the roles, tasks, knowledge, learning objectives and
> learning styles of different people.
Testing IL should demand comprehension of the 'situatedness' but, equally,
wouldn't individuals in any one of your situations be limiting their
research skills - risk failing in some way - if they were taught/tested on
only a very focussed information literacy.
Chris Armstrong
Information Automation Limited
<http://www.i-a-l.co.uk>
01974 251302
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