Microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward individuals from marginalized communities. This chat will focus on microaggressions in the LIS field. For some background reading check this article out: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/microaggressions-in-everyday-life/201010/racial-microaggressions-in-everyday-life.
Discussion questions:
Q1: What does microaggression look like in librarianship? #critlib
Q2: What do you do as an individual when you’ve experienced a microaggression? Are some coping strategies better than others? #critlib
Q3: How do you deal w/microaggressions in the workplace? How does your admin? #critlib
Q4: How can we create cultures in our libraries that are inclusive for our employees and patrons? #critlib
Q5: How do you own up when you’ve been the microaggessor? #critlib
Topic: For today’s chat, we’re using Shroeder and Cahoy’s (2010) definition of the affective domain as including one’s “attitudes, emotions, interests, motivation, self-efficacy, and values.” The proposed Framework for Information Literacy identifies affective learning outcomes under the Dispositions section of each frame.
Discussion questions:
Q1: For better or worse, how have you seen feelings at play in the library classroom?
Q2: In what ways do you adapt to the values/attitudes/emotions of particular learners?
Q3: The proposed IL framework includes Dispositions to address affective elements within each concept. Taking the “Info Has Value” as an example, how well do these dispositions cover a #critlib perspective?
Learners who are developing their information literate abilities:
Respect the original ideas of others and the academic tradition of citation and attribution.
Value the creative skills needed to produce information.
See themselves as contributors to the information marketplace rather than only consumers of it.
Recognize issues of access or lack of access to information sources.
Topic: This special chat with guest participants @mhensle1 and @T_Swanson, members of the ACRL IL Revision Task Force, will focus on how the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education [PDF] relates to critical pedagogy, critical information literacy, and social justice, in the work we do.
Readings: In addition to the latest draft of the Framework [PDF], please also take a look at the following:
Q3, 3/3 As per @T_Swanson’s question from his post: What might an IL frame/TC focused on crit IL &/or social justice look like? #critlib
Q4 via @FromTheShelves b/c Info has Value, it also has Power. How might this TC address how groups seek to control info’s flow? (groups = governments, companies, social groups, etc.) #critlib
Q5 In what ways is the authority conferred by ACRL on the Framework helpful &/or problematic to our work as crit IL instructors? #critlib
Topic: This week, @edrabinski will invite the group to turn our critical lenses on ourselves. How do libraries and librarians reproduce oppressive structures? How do they resist oppression? What are some strategies we can use to transform ourselves?
Discussion questions:
Q1: What kinds of structural oppressions are reproduced by libraries and librarians, and how?
Q2: Is there anything intrinsically resistant about libraries and/or librarians?
Q3: How can we mobilize the things that libraries and librarians are good at to bring about social change?
Q4: What are the characteristics of a critical pedagogue, and how can we cultivate those characteristics? (Thanks for the Q, @donnarosemary!)
Topic: There’s no Wikipedia article for Critical Information Literacy (henceforth referred to as cilwikiart) – let’s write one! We’ll be throwing around some ideas for how to approach crowdsourcing this.
Discussion questions:
Q1 What are the key concepts/sections to include in our cilwikiart?
Q2 Who are the critical people to cite in the cilwikiart?
Q3 Logistically, what would be best approach to groupwriting our cilwikiart? Google doc? Wiki userspace draft?
Q4 Who wants to write part of our cilwikiart, & what role would you like to take – initial draft of a section? Add to drafts?
Q5 Other important Qs I’m totally forgetting right now?
Outcome: We are going to write this article! We have a “userspace draft” here: http://tinyurl.com/cilwikiart-draft – anyone with this link can see this, anyone with a Wikipedia acct can edit it – but it is not a “live” article yet. Basically, this is our sandbox to go crazy in – to begin writing the article, place to put notes/placeholders of things to add, listing relevant sources to cite, etc. – feel free to start doing whatever you want here! Along with this draft space is a “user talk” space where we can converse – thanks to Rory Litwin for pointing out and creating this shortened link: bit.ly/1qTveJc
Deadlines: There were calls for some “soft deadlines” and also maybe scheduling a group edit-a-thon for late June/early July – stay tuned for a more concrete date in that time frame (maybe a doodle poll to coordinate), which will be tweeted to #critlib and posted here. Vive la #critlib!
