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The paper, “Information Literacy as a Right and a Duty: the Experience of the Czech Republic,” presented at ECIL 2014, outlined the brief history of implementing various literacies into Czech educational curricula, and uncovered three major public policy-making “waves” throughout the implementation. When considering general literacy, information literacy, and financial literacy case studies, it has been shown that information literacy in particular is failing to be adopted by the legal system, This prevents information literacy from being adopted at a national level. The current paper aims to go further in analysis of the legal system (using content analysis of laws as a method), and asks how different types of literacy are realised in law. The paper also investigates whether or not the term information literacy is even relevant and useful in the context of existing educational laws and social development (in the Czech Republic).
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The strategy refers to the van Derusen, Helsper, and Eynon study of digital literacy that includes information skills. However, a closer look into priorities and actions of the strategy shows that it is focused on tools (“use of digital technologies”); see also https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267037582_Measuring_Digital_skills_From_Digital_Skills_to_Tangible_Outcomes_project_report.
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Dombrovská, M. (2016). The End of Information Literacy (?). In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_28
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