Information Literacy and Teacher Education
Teachers play a key role in raising individuals equipped with literacy skills that societies need in the 21st century. Therefore, teacher candidates should be equipped with such skills first. Thus those programs that aim to help teacher candidates gain these skills should be included in the curricul...
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Türk Kütüphaneciler Derneği (Turkish Librarians' Association)
2017-03-01
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| description | Teachers play a key role in raising individuals equipped with literacy skills that societies need in the 21st century. Therefore, teacher candidates should be equipped with such skills first. Thus those programs that aim to help teacher candidates gain these skills should be included in the curriculums of education faculties. Based on this framework, the aim of the study is to both reveal if the information literacy program is considered in both national policies, in laws and in teacher qualification and also determine the existence of information literacy program in departments of educations’ teacher training curriculum. For this purpose, qualitative research approaches have been utilized in the study for determining the existing situation. The data is collected from documents of laws, national policies and action plans, national education council decisions, teacher competencies which were produced by Ministry of Education of both Turkey and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and other related institutions and ministries and missions and programs of primary sources of governmental and foundation universities including education faculties in Ankara-Turkey and TRNC. Content analysis method was used to analyze the data. The analysis showed that information literacy education is not addressed sufficiently both in Turkey and TRNC in teacher education programs, there is a lack of awareness on information literacy education program in the education faculties. At the end of this study, evaluation of the obtained data was made and suggestions were made for future researches. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dea8bf109f8842029d31ca69a4a89f822025-08-20T02:42:45ZengTürk Kütüphaneciler Derneği (Turkish Librarians' Association)Türk Kütüphaneciliği1300-00392147-96822017-03-01311558910.24146/tkd.2017.52668Information Literacy and Teacher EducationFatma BaysenNermin ÇakmakEngin BaysenTeachers play a key role in raising individuals equipped with literacy skills that societies need in the 21st century. Therefore, teacher candidates should be equipped with such skills first. Thus those programs that aim to help teacher candidates gain these skills should be included in the curriculums of education faculties. Based on this framework, the aim of the study is to both reveal if the information literacy program is considered in both national policies, in laws and in teacher qualification and also determine the existence of information literacy program in departments of educations’ teacher training curriculum. For this purpose, qualitative research approaches have been utilized in the study for determining the existing situation. The data is collected from documents of laws, national policies and action plans, national education council decisions, teacher competencies which were produced by Ministry of Education of both Turkey and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and other related institutions and ministries and missions and programs of primary sources of governmental and foundation universities including education faculties in Ankara-Turkey and TRNC. Content analysis method was used to analyze the data. The analysis showed that information literacy education is not addressed sufficiently both in Turkey and TRNC in teacher education programs, there is a lack of awareness on information literacy education program in the education faculties. At the end of this study, evaluation of the obtained data was made and suggestions were made for future researches.http://tk.org.tr/index.php/TK/article/view/2760Bilgi okuryazarlığıöğretmen yetiştirmeöğretmen adayları. |
| spellingShingle | Fatma Baysen Nermin Çakmak Engin Baysen Information Literacy and Teacher Education Türk Kütüphaneciliği Bilgi okuryazarlığı öğretmen yetiştirme öğretmen adayları. |
| title | Information Literacy and Teacher Education |
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| title_short | Information Literacy and Teacher Education |
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| topic | Bilgi okuryazarlığı öğretmen yetiştirme öğretmen adayları. |
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