Knowing and learning in everyday spaces (KALiEds): Mapping the information landscape of refugee youth learning in everyday spaces (original) (raw)

Abstract

Refugee youth are faced with complex information needs that require them to identify and map the everyday spaces that can contribute to their learning outside the formal schooling system. The use of everyday spaces by refugee youth aged 16–25 was investigated using photovoice and interview data collection methods. The findings of the study suggest that the information needs and information literacy practices of this cohort arise from the desire to connect with a new community, to learn new social rules and to become established, while at the same time supporting the information needs of other family members and dealing with the social challenges that arise from cultural expectations. These challenges require them to connect with a wide range of everyday spaces to support their learning needs.

Loading...

Loading Preview

Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.

References (37)

  1. Major J, Wilkinson J, Langat K, Santoro N. Sudanese young people of refugee background in rural and regional Australia: social capital and education success. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education. 2013; 23(3):95.
  2. Sampson R, Gifford SM. Place-making, settlement and well-being: the therapeutic landscapes of recently arrived youth with refugee backgrounds. Health & Place. 2010;16(1):116-31
  3. Lloyd A. Information literacy landscapes: Information literacy in education, workplace and everyday contexts. Oxford, UK.: Chandos; 2010.
  4. Kemmis S, Wilkinson J, Edwards-Groves C, Hardy I, Grootenboer P, Bristol L. Changing practices, changing education: Springer Science & Business Media; 2013.
  5. Lloyd A. Following the red thread of information in information literacy research: Recovering local knowledge through interview to the double. Library & Information Science Research. 2014; 36 (2):99-105
  6. Fisher KE, Peterson Bishop A, Fawcett P, Magassa L. InfoMe; A field-design methodology for research on ethnic minority youth as information mediaries. New directions in Children's and Adolescents Information Behaviour Research: Emerald Publishing Group; 2014, (10):135-156.
  7. Lloyd A, Kennan MA, Thompson KM, Qayyum A. Connecting with new information landscapes: information literacy practices of refugees. Journal of Documentation. 2013; 69(1):121-44.
  8. Blumer H. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and method. Englewood Cliffs. N.J.: Prentice Hall; 1969.
  9. Bourdieu P. The forms of capital. In: Richardson JG, editor. Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education New York,: Greenwood Press; 1986. pp. 241-58.
  10. Schatzki T. The site of the social: A philosophical account of the constitution of social life and change. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press; 2002.
  11. Leckie G, Given L. Henri Lefebvre and Spatial Dialectics. In: Leckie G, Given L, Buschman J, editors. Critical theory for Library and Information Science. Santa Barbara, Calif: Libraries Unlimited; 2010. pp. 221-36.
  12. Fisher KE, Durrance JC, Bouch Hinton M. Information grounds and the use of need-based services by immigrants in Queens, New York: A context-based, outcome evaluation approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2004;55(8):754-66.
  13. Savolainen R. Everyday Information Practice: A social phenomenological perspective. Maryland, US: Scarecrow Press; 2008.
  14. Husserl E. General introduction to a pure phenomenology. (F. Kersten, Trans.). Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1982.
  15. Habermas J. The theory of communicative action: Lifeworld and system: A critique of functionalist reason. Boston: Beacon Press; 1987.
  16. Lefebvre H. The production of space. Trans D. Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell; 1991.
  17. Schatzki TR. The timespace of human activity: On performance, society, and history as indeterminate teleological events: Lexington Books; 2010.
  18. Chattopadhyay S. Narrating everyday spaces of the resettled Adivasis in Sardar Sarovar. Population, Space and Place 2010;16:85-101. Journal of Information Science, 2015, pp. 1-13 © The Author(s), DOI: 10.1177/0165551510000000
  19. Bateson G. Steps to ecology of mind. San Francisco: Jason Aronson Inc; 1972.
  20. Lloyd A. Information literacy landscapes: an emerging picture. Journal of Documentation. 2006; 62 (5):570-83.
  21. Gergen K. Social construction in context. London: SAGE Publications; 2001.
  22. Ingold T. The temporality of the landscape. World Archaeology. 1993; 25(2): 152-74.
  23. Nardi B, O'Day L. Information ecologies; Using technology with heart. 1999. Boston: MIT Press.
  24. Julien H, Given LM, Opryshko A. Photovoice: A promising method for studies of individuals' information practices. Library & Information Science Research. 2013; 35(4): 257-263.
  25. Wang C, Burris MA. Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment. Health Education & Behavior. 1997; 24(3): 369-87.
  26. Wang C. Youth Participation in Photovoice a Strategy for Community Change. Journal of Community Practice. 2006;14(1- 2):147-61.
  27. Pickard A. Research methods in information. London: Facet Publishing; 2012.
  28. Clarke AE. Situational Analysis: Grounded theory after the postmodern turn. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications; 2005.
  29. Charmaz K. Constructing Grounded Theory; A practical guide through qualitative analysis. London: Sage Publications; 2006.
  30. Charmaz K. Constructing Grounded Theory. 2nd ed. London: Sage Publication; 2014
  31. Barton D, Hamilton M. Local Literacies: Reading and writing in one community. Oxon: Routledge; 1998.
  32. Blackler F. Knowledge, Knowledge work and organizations: An overview and interpretation. Organization studies. 1995;16 (6):1021-46.
  33. Clarke AE. Situational Analyses: Grounded Theory Mapping After the Postmodern Turn. Symbolic Interaction. 2003; 26(4):553-76.
  34. Gilhooly D, Lee E. The Role of Digital Literacy Practices on Refugee Resettlement. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 2014; 57(5):387-96
  35. Wilding R. Mediating culture in transnational spaces: An example of young people from refugee backgrounds. Continuum. 2012;26(3):501-11.
  36. Gibson JJ. The theory of affordances. In: Shaw R, Bransford J, editors. Perceiving, Acting and Knowing. Hilldale: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1977. pp. 67-82.
  37. Fisher KE. Information Grounds. In: Fisher KE, Erdelez S, McKechnie L, editors. Theories of Information Behaviour. Medford, NJ: Information Today; 2006.