Activities and Strategies for More Inclusive and Equitable Information Literacy Instruction

Learn about the growing trend of asset-based pedagogy in information literacy instruction and its practical applications in the college or university library classroom. One such asset-based pedagogy is the funds of knowledge approach, which identifies, validates, and builds on the knowledge and skills that minoritized students bring with them to college from their homes, communities, and workplaces. Minoritized students include BIPOC, first-generation, low-income, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ students, among others. Participants will learn about critiques of deficit thinking in education and the benefits of a funds of knowledge approach, consider examples of the presenter's practical applications of the approach in his teaching, and finally work in small groups to apply funds of knowledge principles to activities and lessons from their own practice as library instructors. Participants will leave with a reimagined activity or lesson that they can try out in the classroom.