TY - JOUR AU - Smith , Janice AU - Oliver , Martin PY - 2005/03/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Exploring behaviour in the online environment: student perceptions of information literacy JF - Research in Learning Technology JA - Research in Learning Technology VL - 13 IS - 1 SE - Original Research Articles DO - 10.3402/rlt.v13i1.10972 UR - https://journal.alt.ac.uk/index.php/rlt/article/view/985 SP - AB - The aim of this paper is to show how information literacy can be conceptualised as a key learning process related to discipline and academic maturity, rather than as a generic skill. Results of a smallscale study including questionnaires and observation of student behaviour are reported and analysed in relation to Bruce’s ‘seven faces of information literacy’ framework. The findings illustrate that information literacy is a highly situated practice that remains undeveloped through mandatory schooling. Some methodological issues are considered in relation to researching information literacy, including the limits of the Bruce model as a framework for analysis. We also show how decontextualised courses can foreground and privilege certain behaviours that are beneficial but that developing higher-level information literate attitudes is likely to be an iterative and contextualised process.DOI: 10.1080/0968776042000339790 ER -