Educating for democracy?: The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school

Hanna Carlsson; Olof Sundin

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_25

Educating for democracy? The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school

Hanna Carlsson, Olof Sundin

Linnaeus University

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Abstract

This paper reports a study of pupils’ experiences of media and information literacy education in five Swedish schools by answering the following overarching question, what roles do the teaching of information seeking and critical assessment of information play for pupils in their school-work as well as in their everyday life? Pupils in ninth grade were asked to fill in a questionnaire regarding their use of digital technology as well as their thoughts on media and information literacy education. The study shows that many pupils are knowledgeable about the terms of production pertaining to content in most online sources they mention. Still, infrastructural meaning-making that take into consideration issues of personalization, data integrity and surveillance, are largely lacking. The study also shows that the school’s teaching is central to the pupils’ development of a critical stance towards the information that they encounter online. These findings underline the importance of how schools choose to treat media and information literacy education. It is concerning then that infrastructural meaning-making is quite absent in the pupils’ responses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sustainable Digital Communities
Subtitle of host publication	15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Anneli Sundqvist, Gerd Berget, Jan Nolin, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	307-326
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-43687-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-43686-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_25
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	iConference 2020: Sustainable digital communities - Borås, Sweden Duration: 2020 Mar 23 → 2020 Mar 26 https://ischools.org/iConference

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	12051
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	iConference 2020
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Borås
Period	2020/03/23 → 2020/03/26
Internet address	https://ischools.org/iConference

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Information Studies

Free keywords

Media and information literacy
infrastructural meaning-making
searching

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Käll- och sökkritik i skolan
Sundin, O. (PI) & Carlsson, H. (Researcher)
Internetstiftelsen i Sverige
2017/02/01 → 2018/04/01
Project: Research

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Carlsson, H., & Sundin, O. (2020). Educating for democracy? The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school. In A. Sundqvist, G. Berget, J. Nolin, & K. I. Skjerdingstad (Eds.), Sustainable Digital Communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings (pp. 307-326). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12051). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_25

Carlsson, Hanna ; Sundin, Olof. / Educating for democracy? The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school. Sustainable Digital Communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings. editor / Anneli Sundqvist ; Gerd Berget ; Jan Nolin ; Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad. Cham : Springer, 2020. pp. 307-326 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Carlsson, H & Sundin, O 2020, Educating for democracy? The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school. in A Sundqvist, G Berget, J Nolin & KI Skjerdingstad (eds), Sustainable Digital Communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12051, Springer, Cham, pp. 307-326, iConference 2020, Borås, Sweden, 2020/03/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_25

Educating for democracy? The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school. / Carlsson, Hanna; Sundin, Olof.
Sustainable Digital Communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Anneli Sundqvist; Gerd Berget; Jan Nolin; Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad. Cham: Springer, 2020. p. 307-326 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12051).

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Carlsson H, Sundin O. Educating for democracy? The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school. In Sundqvist A, Berget G, Nolin J, Skjerdingstad KI, editors, Sustainable Digital Communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2020. p. 307-326. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_25