The Library Quarterly· 2015Q2
Social Justice as Topic and Tool: An Attempt to Transform an LIS Curriculum and Culture
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- 2015year
Short summary
Social justice can be integrated into Library and Information Science (LIS) curricula and culture as both a subject of study and a framework for analyzing power dynamics, as demonstrated by the implementation of social justice-themed courses and an extracurricular reading group.
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Key points
- Social justice can be both a subject of study and an analytical framework in LIS education.
- Implementation involved social justice-themed courses and an extracurricular reading group.
- Transforming LIS culture requires multivalent strategies, community buy-in, and shared labor.
- The approach aims to train culturally competent and socially responsible LIS professionals.
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Abstract
Training culturally competent and socially responsible library and information science (LIS) professionals requires a blended approach that extends across curricula, professional practice, and research. Social justice can support these goals by serving as a topic of inquiry in LIS curricula as well as by providing a scholarly framework for understanding how power and privilege shape LIS institutions and professional practice. This article applies social justice as a topic and tool for transforming LIS curricula and culture by exploring the implementation of social justice–themed courses and an extracurricular reading group in one LIS department. Exploring curricular and extracurricular cases in a shared institutional setting contextualizes key challenges and conversations that can inform similar initiatives in other institutions. Transforming LIS culture to prioritize social justice values, epistemologies, and frameworks requires multivalent strategies, community buy-in, and shared responsibility in terms of the labor of leading and sustaining engagement with social justice.
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