The Mindfulness Framework for Implementing Mindfulness into Information Literacy Instruction

ABSTRACT

This paper presents the Mindfulness Framework for implementing mindfulness into Information Literacy instruction. The Mindfulness Framework is informed by findings from an original survey of the most preferred Information Literacy teaching strategies deployed by nearly 600 academic librarians in the United States and Canada, and grounded in the relevant literature from library and information science and education. Survey responses show that library instructors use a broad variety of teaching strategies, and the authors attempt to demonstrate how these strategies can support the integration of mindfulness into IL instruction. Using mindfulness strategies in other pedagogical contexts has been shown to improve learning and retention. This is the first paper to explore and discuss how librarians can use familiar strategies to integrate mindfulness into information literacy instruction.

KEYWORDS:

• Mindfulness
• information literacy instruction
• academic librarians
• teaching strategies

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

¹ See for example: Walsh (2011), Pagowsky and McElroy (2016), Grassian and Kaplowitz (2009).