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Abstract
In this interactive session, participants will engage in activities that use student-generated questions about visual images as entry points to research literary criticism of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The presenters collaborated on a student-centered, inquiry-based information literacy lesson (IL) focused on visual literacy, critical thinking, and research question design in an introductory literary analysis course. The co-instructors decentralized the classroom by empowering students to ask probing questions about illustrations from an early 20th-Century edition of Hamlet. Workshop participants will experience the presenters’ lesson firsthand by using the Right Question Institute’s Question Formulation Technique (QFT) as a springboard to research question development, keyword generation, and library resource exploration. Through facilitated activities and discussions, participants will learn about instructional strategies that inspire students to follow their own research interests, enabling them to direct class discussions and determine lesson outcomes. Finally, participants will reflect upon how such strategies could be applied in their own library and classroom contexts.
Date Created
06/03/2024
Department
UNH Manhester Library; Communication Arts and Sciences
Publication Date
6-3-2024
Subject
Information Literacy; Visual Literacy
Language
English
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https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/adfbeb87-8e92-4401-a7b4-190ed3e9fff4
Document Type
Presentation
Source
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/adfbeb87-8e92-4401-a7b4-190ed3e9fff4
Recommended Citation
Gamtso, Carolyn White and Paterson, Susanne F., "Visual Images as a Gateway to Scholarly Inquiry in Information Literacy Instruction" (2024). Faculty Publications. 2007.
https://scholars.unh.edu/faculty_pubs/2007
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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