Liberty and Justice for All: Critical Information Literacy for Business

and Professional StudentsIlana StonebrakerCaitlan Maxwell

Kenny GarciaJessica Jerrit

Critical PedagogyCritical Pedagogy

“help[s] students to develop a consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, empower the imagination, connect knowledge and trust to power, and learn how to read both the word and the world as part of a broader struggle for agency, justice and democracy.” (Giroux 2012, p. 116).

Business, Professional Students

• Business, law, medicine, education, engineering, technology

• Students who went to school to go into a specific profession

• Not (always) undergraduate focused

GoalsGoals

• as a method of engaging with responsibility issues

• a means of empowerment for students to think critically about professional information and enviroments

Our ApproachOur Approach

1. Find Collaborators/ Build Connections2. Reflect Deeply3. Integrate and Align our Intents and

Actions with Discipline

• Kenny Garcia- Health• Jessica Jerrit- STEM• Caitlan Maxwell- Computer Science and

Career/Vocational• Ilana Stonebraker- Business and Service-

Learning

Critical LibrarianshipCritical Librarianship

“strives to examine librarianship through a critical lens, looking for intersections of librarian practice and social justice” (Elmborg 2006).