ANCIL and the reflexive practitioner: a masterclass
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Workshop presented by Jane Secker and Emma Coonan at LILAC 2018, using resources and activities based on their 2011 research project 'A New Curriculum for Information Literacy (ANCIL)'
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ANCIL and the reflexive practitioner: a masterclass
- 1. ANCIL AND THE REFLEXIVE PRACTITIONER Jane Secker City, University of London Emma Coonan Anglia Ruskin University
- 2. ORIGINS OF ANCIL Develop a revolutionary curriculum for IL in a digital age Map the current landscape of IL Expert consultation: not just what should be taught, but how Temple to Apollo, Zoe52 flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
- 4. ARE LIBRARIANS TEACHERS? Wheeler & McKinney, 2016
- 5. RESOURCE PROVIDERS OR TEACHING PARTNERS? McCluskey, 2011
- 6. OVER TO YOU … What’s your identity (or identities) as a teaching librarian? How does your institution see you: as a resource provider or a partner in learning? Where do you fit in the module design validation process? o Are you involved in designing the content? o Do you come in at the course validation level, e.g. reading list fulfilment? o Do you even come in at course validation level?
- 7. MAPPING YOUR TEACHING: THE BIG PICTURE Victorian mindmapped man LukePDQ, flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
- 8. What are you teaching in your sessions? How does it align with the ANCIL strands? What are you not teaching, and why? IL provision mapping tool available at newcurriculum.wordpress.com/using-ancil
- 9. MAPPING YOUR TEACHING: LEARNING DESIGN
- 10. How are your students learning? Are you telling them what to do … Or teaching them to think? ANCIL lesson plan template available at newcurriculum.wordpress.com/using-ancil
- 11. THINKING POINTS
- 12. CONSTRUCTIVE ALIGNMENT Biggs & Tang, 2011 Assessment method Learning activities Intended learning outcomes
- 13. THEORIES ESPOUSED VS. THEORIES-IN-USE Argyris & Schon, 1974 I’m a huge fan of active learning
- 14. MINDFULNESS AND MOMENTS OF DISCOMFORT Reflexivity is not to be confused with reflection. We often reflect on our teaching, and we ask students to reflect on their learning. Reflection is a wonderful tool. It is, though, a tool for “after the fact.” We reflect at the end of an assignment or at the end of a course. We identify what we learned and how we can possibly do differently next time. Reflexivity, on the other hand, is to engage in the moment, to understand the thoughts and feelings of an experience while experiencing that experience. Hara, Billie (2010) Reflexive Pedagogy. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhack er/reflexive-pedagogy/22939
- 15. REFERENCES ACRL Student Learning and Information Committee (2017) Global Perspectives on Information Literacy: Fostering A Dialogue for International Understanding. Argyris, C. & Schon, D. (1974) Theory In Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Biggs, J. & Tang, C. (2011) Teaching For Quality Learning in Higher Education: What the Student Does. Maidenhead: Open University Press McCluskey, C. (2011) Creating information literacy partnerships in higher education. Library and Information Research 35(111), 59-72 Wheeler, E. & McKinney, P. (2015) Are librarians teachers? Investigating academic librarians' perceptions of their own teaching roles. Journal of Information LIteracy 9(2), 111-128 Cover image: Tulip stair at the Queens House Greenwich by mcginnley, flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.0)
- 16. READING Boud, D., Keogh, R. & Walker, D. (1985) Reflection: Turning Experience into Learning. London: Kogan Page Brookfield, S. (1995) Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass Gibb, G. (1988) Learning by Doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods. London: Further Education Unit Moon, J. (2005) Guide for Busy Academics No.4. Learning Through Reflection. York: Higher Education Academy Schon, D. (1987) Educating The Reflective Practitioner. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
- 17. Jane Secker jane.secker@city.ac.uk | @jsecker Emma Coonan emma.coonan@anglia.ac.uk | @LibGoddess All ANCIL resources are CC-licensed and free to download at newcurriculum.wordpress.com
Editor's Notes
- When we created A New Curriculum for Information Literacy in 2011, one of our aims was to inform future information literacy teaching. By creating a framework which is both practical and research informed we wanted not only to exemplify what we found forward-looking teachers were already doing but also to offer an accessible model for others. “Less training, more teaching” – expert consultation
- Pursuing this thinking led us to see (in classic constructivist fashion) that this complex issue of ‘how to teach’ depends on the agency and approach of the practitioner – not on what they’re told to do : ) It’s about your worldview and how you see your identity [Wheeler] Note this is a phenomenographic outcome space – not discrete categories, but a fluid set of identities that we move between. So what is our teaching identity? Suggests there remain serious issues around our own perception of our identity, our value, and our position in teaching & learning. Lack of confidence, lack of pedagogic expertise (perceived or unconscious).
- There’s also how we’re permitted to see ourselves. There are significant institutional factors in how we’re allowed to see and portray ourselves, and what we’re allowed to do in our practice. A lot of this has to do with the strategic positioning of the library within the institution. (Mwesigwa – “information material custodianship” p.74) McCluskey’s study: “it is apparent that one academic saw the role as predominantly reactive-supportive, one entirely supportive, two mostly supportive, with some tendencies to partnership and one leaning towards partnership more strongly.” (p.69) So institutional perceptions and positioning of the library are yet more factors that can prevent librarians from fulfilling their potential as partners in teaching and learning, rather than providers and custodians of material. Think about – for instance – where you fit in the curriculum design and course validation process. Are you involved right from the start, in designing the content and learning opportunities? Do you only come in at the course validation level, e.g. reading list fulfilment? Do you even come in at course validation level? We would love to hear from anyone who thinks they are involved in curriculum design? Course approval process still an after thought. Pair discussion about where you are in your institution and feedback.
- Aiming for a quick & dirty, ‘big picture’ approach here just to get an overview of your own practice and context. May be useful to bear in mind that the 10 strands aim to cover the learner’s journey, not just what libraries usually teach. HANDOUT: audit mapping worksheet (JS to bring)
- Because of the underlying principles of ANCIL - we looked to develop a pedagogy for empowerment, not transmission of knowledge. So, pick one of the strands where you feel you do ‘teaching’ (however you define it) and where you are a partner in designing learning (not a resource provider). Now let’s think about these questions …
- Again, this is likely to be on a spectrum that varies according to context. (Remember that institutional pressure – might be the difference between genuine evaluation of info sources [e.g. Scholar] and the “value add” message of ‘our databases contain everything you need’ …) Link this to teacher identity and confidence. The expert identity / do you spend time telling students what to do / what to think rather than asking questions, letting them find things out. If it’s useful to your thinking, use parts of the lesson plan template to bring out the higher-order information understanding and/or constructivist approaches in your approach. HANDOUT: lesson plan (EMC to bring)
- A couple of tools for reflection and reflexivity.
- “all components in the teaching system – the curriculum and its intended outcomes, the teaching methods used, the assessment tasks – are aligned to each other …. The learner finds it difficult to escape without learning appropriately” (!) Also Biggs & Tang 11: “Driving in the thick fog is unpleasant. So is learning in one.” NB FIND EXAMPLE OF MIS-ALIGNED ASSESSMENT
- “an adult educator claims to use a student-centred approach to learning (Espoused Theory) but his/her actual theory-in-use, the one that drives the design and implementation of his/ her action, is the conventional didactic, teacher-content led approach. The adult educator in this example believes his/her espoused theory and remains blissfully unaware of the actual theory being used, and as such cannot surface or reflect upon the real goals and objectives that he/she is attempting to achieve.” - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00002884.htm
- Being in the moment – noticing when you are uncomfortable – mindfulness and IL and reflexive practice – reflection in action as Schon calls it