Liberty and Justice for All: Critical Information Literacy for Business
and Professional StudentsIlana StonebrakerCaitlan Maxwell
Kenny GarciaJessica Jerrit
Critical PedagogyCritical Pedagogy
“help[s] students to develop a consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, empower the imagination, connect knowledge and trust to power, and learn how to read both the word and the world as part of a broader struggle for agency, justice and democracy.” (Giroux 2012, p. 116).
Business, Professional Students
• Business, law, medicine, education, engineering, technology
• Students who went to school to go into a specific profession
• Not (always) undergraduate focused
GoalsGoals
• as a method of engaging with responsibility issues
• a means of empowerment for students to think critically about professional information and enviroments
Our ApproachOur Approach
1. Find Collaborators/ Build Connections2. Reflect Deeply3. Integrate and Align our Intents and
Actions with Discipline
• Kenny Garcia- Health• Jessica Jerrit- STEM• Caitlan Maxwell- Computer Science and
Career/Vocational• Ilana Stonebraker- Business and Service-
Learning
Critical LibrarianshipCritical Librarianship
“strives to examine librarianship through a critical lens, looking for intersections of librarian practice and social justice” (Elmborg 2006).
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