Abstract
Protest movements or more recently the first post-truth pandemic Covid-19 have brought to the fore, in a context of information profusion, the issues of misinformation, alternative facts and fake news. At a time when people have less confidence in the media and institutions, when there is easy access to all kinds of content and a strong emphasis on storytelling and emotions, teaching information-documentation is a challenge for teachers and teacher librarians concerned with these issues. Therefore, information culture needs to be reconsidered in a broader and stronger sense. How do teacher librarians and teachers deal with Information and Media Education in a so-called post-truth world? We present the context of our study, and define information disorder and fake news, and then question how a critical education can be implemented, its potential and limitations. We rely on data collected over time (2018–20) in two middle and two high schools, in France.
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“L’éducation à l’information et aux médias (EIM), à l’heure du web 2.0 et des réseaux: Mise en ohérence des savoirs et recompositions curriculaires”. With three INSPÉ, Higher Schools for Professorship and Education (Lille, Lorraine, Paris) and two laboratories (GERiiCO, LISEC).
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Circulaire n° 2017–051 du 28 mars 2017. Bulletin Officiel de l’Education nationale, 30 mars 2017. http://www.education.gouv.fr/pid285/bulletin_officiel.html?cid_bo=114733.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2018/10/31/lauteur-du-premier-appel-a-la-purge-juge-le-28-novembre-un-autre-ado-interpelle_a_23576533/ After a “call” (October 2018) announcing that everything is allowed on Halloween night, creating panic, the author tries quickly to calm the game, explaining that it was a huge joke, and an invention of his own.
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Maury, Y., Gatti, R. (2022). Teaching Information Documentation in a “Post-truth” World: A Challenge for a Critical Education. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Ünal, Y., Boustany, J., Kos, D. (eds) Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. ECIL 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1533. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_1
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