Information literacy as an extension discipline

action developed in a public school in Salvador

Abstract

By understanding Information Literacy, as an educational action, which can be a way to educate persons in the face of disinformation trends, we seek to analyze a Curricular Action in Community and Society - "Ação Curricular em Comunidade e Sociedade (ACCS)", an extension discipline, which aims to stimulate the development of an infoeducational profile for students of the Archival and Library Science courses at the Federal University of Bahia. The Action was developed at Colégio Estadual Edvaldo Brandão Correia, a public school in Salvador. A combination of methodological strategies was adopted that involved participatory research around the training actions involved, the application of a questionnaire and the documentary analysis of collaborative productions prepared by undergraduate students linked to the accounts and by public school students, through a qualitative approach. The results showed that pedagogical planning combined with theoretical contextualization and field activities, supported by active participation, welcoming and interaction with the school community, provide collaborative learning. Such aspects are demonstrated to be relevant and necessary to mitigate the difficulties of the very nature of extension action and its social environment. Thus, it is concluded that considering Information Literacy, as an educational action, presupposes the appropriation of its foundations, the protagonism and collaboration of the persons involved, as well as considering the social context in which they are inserted.