“EVERYTHING WE DO IS PEDAGOGY.”

CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, THE FRAMEWORK

AND LIBRARY PRACTICE

JEREMY MCGINNISS

SUMMIT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY DIRECTOR

@JMYMCGINNISS

LOEX 2016 PITTSBURGH, PA CC-BY-NC

QUESTIONS

HOW DOES THE LIBRARY,

AS A WHOLE, ENGAGE

IN PEDAGOGY?

“PEDAGOGY IS PRESENT WHEREVER KNOWLEDGE IS PRODUCED.”

H. GIROUX

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

• Definition and discussion of critical pedagogy• Critical pedagogy and the ACRL Framework• Three sites of application

Critical Pedagogy

Library Practice

ACRL Framework

Thinking/Acting in the Library

ACRL Framework

Critical Pedagogy

Library Practice

Critical PedagogyACRL Framework

Library Practice

WHAT IS CRITICAL PEDAGOGY?

“Critical pedagogy…affords students the opportunity

to read, write and learn from a position of agency-to engage in

a culture of questions…imagining literacy

as a mode of intervention, a way of learning

about the word as a basis for intervening in the world….”

Henry A. Giroux, On Critical Pedagogy.

THREE REASONS FOR CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

• Identity

“…the experience of the learning self is invented in and through its

engagement with pedagogy’s force.

This self emerges along with the new concepts that its participation in a particular

pedagogy helps to create and the new challenges that its participation helps to pose.”

Elizabeth Ellsworth, Places of Learning

THREE REASONS FOR CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

• Identity•Relationships•Mode of educational action

CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

AND THE ACRL FRAMEWORK

“CREATE WIDER CONVERSATIONS ABOUT STUDENT LEARNING, THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING, AND THE ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING ON LOCAL CAMPUSES AND BEYOND.”

www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework

AUTHORITY IS CONSTRUCTED & CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION CREATION

AS A PROCESS

INFORMATION HAS VALUE

RESEARCH AS INQUIRY

SCHOLARSHIP AS CONVERSATION

SEARCHING AS STRATEGIC EXPLORATION

ENGAGING CRITICAL

PEDAGOGY

SITES OF PRACTICE

Library Space

“WHAT IS FAMILIAR TENDS TO BE TRANSPARENT.”

MICHAEL BUCKLAND

SITES OF PRACTICE

Library SpaceFaculty

“…WE TEACH WHO WE ARE.”

Parker Palmer

SITES OF PRACTICE

Library SpaceFaculty Student Staff

HOW DOES THE LIBRARY,

AS A WHOLE, ENGAGE

IN PEDAGOGY?

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