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Literacy for Democracy: What Can Information Literacy Learn from Legal Literacy, and Vice Versa?

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Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era (ECIL 2021)

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This paper builds on two previously published contributions to ECIL (2014 and 2016) and develops the relationship between information literacy and legal literacy, this time focusing on legal literacy. The paper investigates whether or not information literacy and legal literacy can influence one another in the context of human rights and active citizenship in the Czech Republic, and is based on a comprehensive survey of both legal literacy and information literacy research.

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    Michaela Dombrovská

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  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  3. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Denis Kos

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Dombrovská, M. (2022). Literacy for Democracy: What Can Information Literacy Learn from Legal Literacy, and Vice Versa?. 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_61

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