Competência crítica em informação como prática de ensino: panorama de pesquisas a partir de trabalhos presentes na BRAPCI e na BDTD

Abstract

In 2015, while Eamon Tewell published an article reviewing a decade of critical information literacy studies in the United States of America, the term critical information literacy appears for the first time in Portuguese. This research, a bibliographical review of descriptive and exploratory nature, looks at studies on critical information literacy (CIL) with the aim of understanding its characteristics, particularities and potential in the country, especially regarding the teaching of such competences. The data collected in the Reference Database of Journal Articles in Information Science (Brapci) and in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), indicate 23 articles and 3 master's dissertations on the subject. These works are analyzed by theme and type of research (theoretical, empirical or applied) carried out in these first 5 years of field development. The results of the dissertations indicate that the CIL works at the intersection between information, politics and emancipation. The analysis of the articles shows that there is still no research on the teaching of critical information literacy in the country. The most explored themes in the works are ethics, disinformation, libraries, informational practices, critical theories, social movements and information regimes. It is concluded that the idea of ​​critical information literacy discusses fundamentals and themes that encourage a questioning look at the contemporary informational reality, but it still needs to gain capillarity in the academy, in information units and in classrooms so that teaching-learning practices aimed at promoting a critical relationship with the informational environment can be proposed.