TY - JOUR
T1 - Education for Australia's information future
AU - BURFORD, Sally
AU - Partridge, Helen
AU - Brown, Sarah
AU - Hyder, Philip
AU - Ellis, Leonie
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Australian library and information science educators who generously contributed their time and thoughts to this research project. The project was funded by the former Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
Funding Information:
Recognising the significant and global challenges and changes facing current and future information education, the opportunity to respond arose through an Australian national research project: Re-conceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and information science education for the twenty-first century, which was funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. The project was undertaken with a project team of 12 university and vocational information academics from 11 institutions around Australia between November 2009 and December 2010. The purpose of the project was to establish a consolidated and holistic picture of national information education and to frame a cohesive and sustainable approach that will benefit the digital information future of Australia and beyond. Recognising three major stakeholders in the education process the project team framed three areas for consideration: students, industry and the tertiary education sector. This paper reports on one of the three sub-studies – the tertiary information education sector.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 HERDSA.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Digital disruption and an increasingly networked society drive rapid change in many professions and a corresponding need for change in tertiary education. Across the world, information education has, to date, prepared graduates for employment in discrete professions, such as librarianship, records management, archives and teacher librarianship. However, contemporary information practices are less defined and are demanding of new professional skill-sets and understandings. This paper reports a study that consulted Australia's tertiary academics about the current circumstances of information education in the academy and elicited a vision and a concern for future directions in Australian information education.
AB - Digital disruption and an increasingly networked society drive rapid change in many professions and a corresponding need for change in tertiary education. Across the world, information education has, to date, prepared graduates for employment in discrete professions, such as librarianship, records management, archives and teacher librarianship. However, contemporary information practices are less defined and are demanding of new professional skill-sets and understandings. This paper reports a study that consulted Australia's tertiary academics about the current circumstances of information education in the academy and elicited a vision and a concern for future directions in Australian information education.
KW - Digital Information
KW - information education
KW - information
KW - digital information
KW - information academics; information education
KW - tertiary information
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84930573970&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/education-australias-information-future
U2 - 10.1080/07294360.2014.973380
DO - 10.1080/07294360.2014.973380
M3 - Article
SN - 0729-4360
VL - 34
SP - 458
EP - 471
JO - Higher Education Research and Development
JF - Higher Education Research and Development
IS - 3
ER -