"A collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning, this volume provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education"-- Provided by publisher.

v. 1.v. 2. Lesson plans. v. 1 : Essays and workbook activities. Falling out of praxis : reflection as a pedagogical habit of mind -- Learning from teaching : a dialogue of risk and reflection -- How unplanned events can sharpen the critical focus in information literacy instruction -- "Taking back" information literacy : time and the one-shot in the neoliberal university -- At odds with assessment : being a critical educator within the academy -- What standards do and what they don't -- Barriers to critical pedagogy in information literacy teaching -- Loading examples to further human rights education -- Social constructivism and critical information literacy -- Finding and analyzing information for action and reflection : possibilities and limitations of popular education in one-shot library instruction -- Collaborative pedagogies : LIS courses and public library partnerships -- What is possible : setting the stage for co-exploration in archives and special collections -- Of the people, by the people, for the people : critical pedagogy and government information -- The failed pedagogy of punishment : moving discussions of plagiarism beyond detection and discipline -- Queering library instruction for composition : embracing the failure -- Search and destroy : punk rock tactics for library instruction -- Cultivating a mind of one's own : drawing on critical information literacy and liberal education -- Reflections on the retention narrative : extending critical pedagogy beyond the classroom -- We don't count : the invisibility of teaching librarians in statistics on academic instructional labor -- Leave your "expert" hat at the door : embracing critical pedagogy to create a community of librarian learners -- Starting small : practicing critical pedagogy through collective conversation -- Developing a "critical pedagogy disposition" -- Resistance is fertile : (or everything I know about teaching I learned in yoga class) -- Using personal reflection to incorporate antiracist pedagogy in library instruction -- Critical self-reflection : moving inward to provide outward service -- Carrots in the brownies : incorporating critical librarianship in unlikely places -- Fresh techniques : getting ready to use hip hop in the classroom -- Course materials : reinforcing dominant narratives or challenging mindsets -- Information worlds and you : harnessing theory for instruction -- Documenting your critical journey\v. 2 : Lesson plans. Mapping power and privilege in scholarly conversations -- Moving students to the center through collaborative documents in the classroom -- Deconstructing gender in financial literacy -- Question authority and be an authority : the future belongs to us -- Podcasting as pedagogy -- Speaking up : using feminist pedagogy to raise critical questions in the information literacy classroom -- Authority and source evaluation in the critical library classroom -- Critical pedagogy and the information cycle : a practical application -- Critical engagement with numbers and images -- Critical consciousness and search : an introductory visualization -- Googling Google : search engines as market actors in library instruction -- Zines as primary sources -- Teaching with Riot grrrl : an active learning session at the intersections of authenticity and social justice -- Using pop culture, feminist pedagogy, and current events to help students explore multiple sides of an argument -- Zines in classroom : critical librarianship and participatory collections -- Where should these books go? -- Questioning health sciences authority -- Critical pedagogy for business and management undergraduates : evaluation of marketing information -- Teaching with data : visualization and information as a critical process -- From traditional to critical : highlighting issues of injustice and discrimination through primary sources -- My primary sources : using student personal history as a gateway to historical context -- Historical newspapers and critical thinking : a lesson plan -- Thinking through visualizations : critical data literacy using remittances -- Critically reflective final exercise -- Fresh techniques : hip hop and library research -- Social justify your lesson plan : how to use social media to make pop culture scholarly -- Zotero : a tool for constructionist learning in critical information literacy -- Ten-minute brainstorm in a first-year English one-off -- How to get to the library from here, there, and everywhere! -- Incorporating critically conscious assessment into a large-scale information literacy program.