Instructional Identities and Information Literacy Volume 1

Plenty of academic librarians find themselves standing in front of a class with little formal training in how to teach, learning the craft through observation, trial and error and whatever professional development comes their way. This first volume of a three-part set takes that unexpected teaching identity seriously, using transformative learning theory, a way of understanding how adults learn and change, to help librarians rethink who they are as educators.

The wider series moves from transforming ourselves to transforming programmes, institutions and student learning, against a backdrop of misinformation, tightening budgets and hard questions about the profession's claims to neutrality. Its chapters take in critical, feminist and antiracist pedagogy, advocacy for library instruction and work with the ACRL Framework. A thoughtful companion for instruction librarians who want their teaching to rest on something firmer than instinct.