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This edited collection explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries. Critical literacy asks fundamental questions about our understanding of knowledge. Unlike more conventional approaches to literacy and resource evaluation, with critical literacy there is no single 'correct' way to read and respond to a text or resource. A commitment to equity and social justice sets critical literacy apart from many other types of literacy and links it to wider societal debates, such as internationalization, community cohesion and responses to disability. The book provides a foundation of critical literacy theory, as applied to libraries; combines theory and practice to explore critical literacy in relation to different user groups, and offers practical ways to introduce critical literacy approaches in libraries.

Study methods --- Documentation and information --- Information literacy --- Critical thinking --- Critical pedagogy. --- Libraries and education. --- Culture de l'information --- Pensée critique --- Pédagogie critique --- Bibliothèques et éducation --- Study and teaching. --- Etude et enseignement --- Pensée critique --- Pédagogie critique --- Bibliothèques et éducation --- Public services (Libraries) --- Library Services --- Information Literacy --- Education --- methods --- Literacy --- Libraries. --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Libraries --- Libraries and readers --- Library public services --- Library services to users --- Library users --- Public libraries --- Library science --- Illiteracy --- General education --- Critical humanism in education --- Radical pedagogy --- Critical theory --- Popular education --- Transformative learning --- Public services --- Services to users --- Services for --- Education - methods