Publications and Research
Document Type
Book Chapter or Section
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
Educating tomorrow’s teachers is a complex and evolving process. !ey are preservice teachers in undergraduate programs, current teachers pursuing career advancement in master’s programs, and aspiring educational researchers in doctoral programs. Perhaps nowhere else on campus does information literacy instruction have more potential to affect generations of information users than when librarians educate the educators as education students will, in turn, impart information literacy skills to the students in their classrooms for many years.
Education students inhabit three overlapping identities as they progress through degree programs: as students fulfilling assignments, professionals conducting evidence-based research, and future teachers responsible for teaching information literacy. Each role requires distinct information seeking behavior, and librarians must be prepared to teach the principles of information literacy in a register that is appropriate for each identity.
To support this work, the ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Instruction for Educators (IFE) committee created the Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Instruction for Educators (IFE Companion Document) to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. This document strives to “provide effective instructional approaches for educators and teacher education faculty in an academic context that supports the overarching information literacy concepts shared across the profession.”
The Framework statically defines the audience of information literacy instruction as “students” and “learners.” However, the IFE Companion Document takes a more specific approach, enabling a more nuanced exploration of the multiple identities of these learners and providing librarians with domain-specific information to consider when developing instruction for education students. !is chapter provides a summary and classroom examples of how the IFE Companion Document can help librarians adapt each frame of the Framework to support the three identities of education students.
Comments
Silberberg, E., Cameron, L., Jones, C., James, A., Lehner-Quam, A., Ewing, R., & Gregor, M. (2025). Educating the educators: Six frames for three identities. In M. Wiley & S. Libson (Eds.), Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework. Association of College and Research Libraries.