Development of Sustainable Thinking by Information Literacy

Angela Repanovici, Cristina Salcă Rotaru and Cristinel Murzea
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Angela Repanovici: Faculty of Product Design and Environment, Transilvania University of Brasov, 500036 Brasov, Romania
Cristina Salcă Rotaru: Faculty of Law, Transilvania University of Brasov, 500036 Brasov, Romania
Cristinel Murzea: Faculty of Law, Transilvania University of Brasov, 500036 Brasov, Romania

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: Developing the sustainable thinking of students is an important preoccupation of specialists, teachers, and civil society. Information literacy represents the development of students’ skills to search, identify, evaluate, and ethically use scientific information. Is there a connection between sustainable thinking (ST) and information literacy (IL)? Through a scientometric study in the Web of Science (WOS) database, the authors identify clusters of keywords, analyze the articles identified in WOS, and identify the main research directions and the existing concepts. At the same time, a qualitative research study is performed regarding the opinions of students who participated in the IL class. By corroborating and interpreting the results obtained by the two previously mentioned research, the authors demonstrate a close correlation between the two, thus creating an extended map of these concepts, a limited map of the concepts used, and a theoretical map of the concepts. The connection between information literacy and the development of ST is demonstrated, thus creating the premise for a new research direction.

Keywords: information literacy; sustainability skills and abilities; higher education institutions; libraries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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