A terminologia adotada no Brasil para o conceito de information literacy : pesquisa em programas de graduação de biblioteconomia

Abstract

The Course Conclusion Paper has as its title: "The Terminology Adopted in Brazil for the Concept of Information Literacy: Research in Graduate Programs in Librarianship", its main objective was to analyze the concept in a contrastive study with the different translations and theoretical approaches in Portuguese language: literacy, informational literacy, information literacy, informational competence, information competence, information proficiency, as well as the adoption of the original English language term used by different information science theorists. Regarding the specific objectives, the research sought to report the evidence that contributes to the teaching and research of the concept in Brazil. Regarding the methodology, the field survey followed the questionnaire (survey) with closed questions and online, applied to teachers and researchers working in undergraduate programs in Librarianship of several universities in Brazil, as a source of data created in complement to the bibliographic research. The analysis of the collected data was made through the concept and the terms by which it is studied in Brazil, presented in the theoretical reference, verifying the polysemy in relation to the term and the approximations with Information Literacy. The question of research denotes which authors and terminologies in Portuguese Language have been used by teachers and adopted in undergraduate programs in Librarianship in Brazil. During the research the teachers' preference for the term "Informative Competence" was verified by Bernadete Campello, who is in charge of research and discussion in Brazil. It concludes that the term IL has been worked for a long time by the scholars, however without unanimity on its translation into the Portuguese Language. It is recommended that the academic community seek the adoption of a common term, to facilitate the mediation of information to undergraduates of Information Science, as well as to organize the scientific production of the area, from the point of view of thematic representation and indexation