Slides from a talk at the Vermont Library Association College & Special Libraries Conference, October 2015. Abstract: Our presentation focuses on the use of primary sources in library instruction to inspire students to think around issues of injustice and oppression. Following remarks on our chapter-in-progress for a book on Critical Library Instruction, the session will be devoted to introducing/discussing Critical Pedagogy and its influence on library instruction. Because Critical Pedagogy is dependent upon decentering the lecturer in favor of a participatory and community-driven style of learning, we hope this session can act as a forum for our colleagues to share ways in which they’ve incorporated facets of Critical Pedagogy into their instructional practice, ask questions about Critical Library Instruction, and offer any critiques they have of Critical Pedagogy/Critical Library Instruction. Delivered with Sean Leahy, Instruction & Learning Assessment Librarian, Champlain College.

1. Critical Pedagogy
Education in the Practice of Freedom

2. Methods & Aims
Origins,

3. The “Banking” Model

4. Dialogue & Consciousness-raising

6. PraxiS(Theory + Action + Reflection)

7. Critical Pedagogy in Libraries
A growing movement

8. Critical Pedagogy &
library instruction

9. Critical Pedagogy &
librarians

10. Critical Pedagogy &
librarianship

11. “Reading Freire for First World Librarians” by Joshua Beatty
“A Decade of Critical Information Literacy” by Eamon Tewell
Some names to know: Troy Swanson, Nicole Pagowsky, Jenna Freedman, April Hatchcock, Emily
Drabinski… and so many more!
#CritLib
& CLAPS2016

12. Champlain College’s Approach to
Critical Pedagogy

13. Inquiry-based, sequential,
Fully-embedded
Information Literacy
program

14. Assessment of 1st Year Assignments
showed confusion with
Primary Sources

15. Primary Source =
My Main Source

16. A lesson to engage & introduce elements of
Critical Information Literacy

17. COR 280 – Colonialism & Western Identity

19. Highlighting issues of
injustice, racism, prejudice, & inequality
in information landscapes

21. Real WorldINFORMATION LITERACY

22. Whose voice is missing?

24. 2016 – Forthcoming ACRL book on
Critical Pedagogy & Library Instruction

25. Sean Leahy, Instruction & Learning Assessment Librarian
Alan Carbery, Associate Library Director
sleahy@champlain.edu acarbery@champlain.edu
@champlib @acarbery

26. “Reading Freire for First World Librarians” by Joshua Beatty
“A Decade of Critical Information Literacy” by Eamon Tewell
Some names to know: Troy Swanson, Nicole Pagowsky, Jenna Freedman, April Hatchcock, Emily
Drabinski… and so many more!
Primary Sources from The Internet Archive – http://www.archive.org
#CritLib
& CLAPS2016