CONSTRUCTING MEANINGS ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFORMATION LITERACY

ATTITUDES, BEHAVIORS, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND VALUES IN FOCUS

Abstract

Information literacy involves the ability to identify information needs, search for, access, critically evaluate, and use information effectively. Furthermore, it is related to lifelong learning and citizenship, since access to information is essential for the construction of knowledge and the full exercise of rights. Studies and research from various perspectives and approaches have been developed over the years, including the development of the theory that addresses the dimensions of Information Literacy. In this sense, this work seeks to construct meanings about the characteristics: attitudes, behaviors, skills, knowledge, and values. For this, bibliographic and documentary research was used, with a qualitative approach, from databases such as BRAPCI, Scielo, and the CAPES Portal, searching for the themes of this article. Thus, the characteristics of Information Literacy were raised to build meanings and relate to the area, and all of them have an interrelationship between them, influencing each other and, consequently, contributing to the development of Information Literacy, in a simplified way, with attitudes being part of world evaluation, judgments and opinions, influencing behaviors that are complex and in constant interaction, so that skills are within literacy, and can be learned and trained, requiring knowledge to build a repertoire for their execution, these not being possible to transmit as information, finally, values shape and direct societies, contributing to the formation of people as citizens, together these characteristics impact the development of Information Literacy.