Teaching information-documentation and media education : international sample survey

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Country *

In which type of school do you work ? *

Primary school

Middle high school

High school

Other:

What is your occupation? *

Teacher librarian (or school librarian)

School teacher

Primary school teacher

Professor (in information, documentation and/or communication)

Other:

Part 1 - The school library or school resource centre

Is there a school library or a resource centre in every type of school in your country ? *

Yes

Is there a school library or a resource centre in your school ? *

If you answer no, get directly to part 2 of the questionnaire.

Yes

If yes, how is this place called ?

Must students have to come to "work" in this place ?

Yes

Clear selection

Regarding this last question, you can specify if you want.

What grade and responsibilities has the staff working in the place? Is he/she...?

A school librarian or teacher librarian

A teacher (or more) of a discipline

A librarian

A librarian assistant

Volonteer pupils / students of the school

Other:

How many persons work in the place?

Clear selection

Do the members of the staff work full-time, part-time? Do they have the same responsabilities?

Speficy.

What are the main missions of the staff?

Choose the 2 most important.

Informal training or training-learning missions

Teaching-learning missions

Management missions

Communication missions

What are the more specific missions of the staff?

You can choose as many answer as you want.

Welcome and accompany the needs of students (training-learning)

Provide technical mediation with students

Developing self-learning

Training pupils / students in information literacy (training-learning)

Training students to find and use information

Educating in the media, information, and digital literacies

Teaching information-documentation

Working or cooperating with other teachers (interdisciplinary/ educational projects)

Managing a library (furnishing, supplying, organizing, assessing, disseminating information about the resources of the school….)

Facilitating and allowing the equal access to reading and resources for everyone

Participating in the fulfillment of the school network of communication

Supporting the opening up of the cultural spectrum of the school

Other:

What sort of activities are taking place in this area?

Several answers possible.

Reading

Games

Working in autonomy (room for homework)

Group work

Production of documents by students

Classes

Remedial courses

Projections (films...)

Loan of documents

Entertainments (meetings...)

Exhibitions of documents created by students

Exhibitions (from outside the school)

Other:

Part 2 - The training needs in your school

At the moment, are there needs which require specific training in your school? *

Several answer possible.

Knowledge and understanding of informational and digital environments

Critical perspective on the media, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and information

Advanced and inventive use of ICT

Management of information and documentation processes (management of the whole process to search and use information)

Legal and ethical responsibility concerning the use of information

Autonomy

Literacy

Taste for reading

Training in the media, information and digital literacies

Management of communication process

No, all these subjects are already taught in my school.

Other:

Required

Part 3 - Information-documentation teaching and media education

Are there teaching units in information-documentation and media education in your school? *

IMPORTANT : If you answer "no", get directly to part 4 of the questionnaire.

Yes

Is this education or teaching... ?

required

optional

joined to the official curriculum

joined to the general policy of the school

an autonomous course

integrated into the traditional subjects (literature, history, biology, etc.)

integrated into cross-disciplinary projects

Who is responsible for the teaching of information-documentation or the media education?

a teacher librarian (or school librarian)

a teacher of a discipline

Other:

Which class or school grade this teaching is dedicated to?

You can also answer according to the age of the pupils / students.

How many hours are planned by class or school grade ?

Do these classes appear in the weekly schedule ?

Yes

Clear selection

If you've answered "yes" to the previous question, what is the title of this course?

What is the global content of this teaching ?

Several answers possible.

Knowledge of informational and digital environments

Process of Information and Documentation / Ability to search and use information (the whole process)

Critical thinking on media, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Information

Legal responsibility and ethics relating to information

Other:

More specifically, what is the content of this teaching in terms of knowledge and skills?

You can choose as many answers as you want.

Informational area (resource centre, signage, architecture of information)

Document (type of document, support, publication)

Source (author, reference edition)

Indexing, keyword, catalog, classification

Information search (searching tools, query, browsing, information need)

Exploitation of information (evaluation of information, relevance, documentary production, taking notes)

Information (media/ type of information/, information economy/disinformation)

Informational space (social media, Internet, website)

Exploitation of information (digital identity, evaluation of information)

Basic knowledge of information laws

Critical reading of information (ethics related to the notion of information)

Other:

If you want, you can make a comment about the previous question.

You have now finished the questionnaire. You can scroll to the bottom of the page and send the form. But before, if you agree to be contacted again in order to specify your teaching methods and the organization of the learning units according to each class or school grade, please give us your mail address below. Thanks a lot for your participation !

Part 4 - You answer this part of the questionnaire only if there are no teaching units in information-documentation or media education in your school (or in the school curricula of your country).

What is your attitude to information-documentation and media education?

Several answers possible.

There is no need in information-documentation and media education for pupils

Information-documentation and media education should become part of the school curriculum

This teaching or education should be offered through electives, after- school clubs

Information-documentation and media education should be mandatory in pedagogical institutes and universities for all future teachers.

It is necessary to introduce a new Major - “Information-documentation and Media Education” in pedagogical institutes and universities, in order to prepare (the) qualified (media) teachers specialized in « information-documentation and media education » for secondary schools

Information-documentation and media education of pupils and students should be integrated into the traditional subjects (literature, history, biology, etc.)

Information-documentation and media education in school and university should be an autonomous course

Information-documentation and media education in school and university should combine both forms, autonomous and integrated

In your opinion, what are the main aims of information-documentation and media education?

Check 3 to 5 most important for you.

Knowledge and understanding of informational and digital environments

Critical thinking towards medias, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and information

Knowledge of the information and documentation processes / Ability to search information (knowing the whole process)

Developing legal responsibility and ethics relating to information

Development of the ability for self-expression with the help of ICT : creation of media texts, publication on Internet.

Protection from harmful influences of Internet

Development of the pupils’ skills for political, ideological analysis of different aspects of media.

Development of the skills of perception, understanding and analysis of media language.

Teaching the history of media and media culture

Development of the skills for the political and ideological analysis of the media

Teaching practical work using the ICT

Do you use elements of media education during your lesson?

Choose one of the following.

Yes

Not sure

Clear selection

If you use the elements of media education during your classes, then how often?

Regularly (2 to 4 times a month or more)

Occasionally (once a month)

Seldom or never

Clear selection

If you do not use media education elements, what prevents you from doing it?

You can choose 1-3 variants among these

I feel I lack knowledge about theory and methods of teaching media

I do not want to teach media

I’m not financially motivated and consider it as an extra work

I am not familiar with technology

There are no directives from school authorities

Other:

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