Undervisning i informationssökning. Diskursiv praktik i två gymnasielärarlag.
InformationskompetensUndersökande arbetssättFokusgrupperDiskurspsykologiTolkningsrepertoarerIdeologiska dilemman
The aim of the present thesis is to examine discourses about teaching information seeking in upper secondary school teachers. The main questions are: (1) What different interpretative repertoires can be identified among teachers talking about teaching information seeking in relation to students? problem-based tasks? (2) How are these repertoires constructed and what functions can be observed? The theoretical framework is discursive psychology. Two teacher teams from two different upper secondary schools in the Gothenburg area participated in focus group interviews. Group A consisted of four teachers from the Individual Programme and group B of seven teachers from the Social Science Programme. The interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. The main focus of the analysis was on discerning interpretative repertoires, subject positioning among teachers, the presence of various ideological dilemmas in the talk and rhetorical aspects used by the teachers. Five different interpretative repertoires were identified; the Information repertoire, the Source repertoire, the Behavioural repertoire, the Process repertoire and the Communicative repertoire. Moreover, each repertoire consists of different ways of talking about teaching information seeking. Throughout the discussions, two recurring aspects emerge that govern the teachers? way of talking about teaching information seeking; the students? ability and the organisation of the school. The ideological dilemmas that appear in the talk deal with the teacher role, different views on the quality of information sources and the teaching of evaluation of information sources. Other dilemmas include the judgement of students? work and how to handle plagiarism.