Journal article
Cultivating Imagination: A Case for Teaching Information Ethics with Works of Fiction
Journal of education for library and information science, Vol.64(1), pp.1-17
01/2023
DOI: 10.3138/jelis-2020-0035
Abstract
This article argues that the MLIS curriculum should offer information ethics courses that enable future information professionals to develop their imaginative powers through close study and discussion of fiction. LIS students reading ethical theory and fiction bring the two into conversation and as a result reach a better understanding of both. Crucially, this process presupposes the exercise of empathetic imagination, a mental capacity that helps us inhabit other perspectives and modes of being in the world. The paper supports this discussion with evidence from an instructional intervention implemented during an information ethics course within an LIS program at a large public research university.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cultivating Imagination: A Case for Teaching Information Ethics with Works of Fiction
- Creators
- Iulian Vamanu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of education for library and information science, Vol.64(1), pp.1-17
- DOI
- 10.3138/jelis-2020-0035
- ISSN
- 0748-5786
- eISSN
- 2328-2967
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 09/22/2021
- Date published
- 01/2023
- Academic Unit
- School of Library and Information Science; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984274753502771
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