Information Literacy and Mediation of Information and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 – Quality Education

the Perspective of Practice in Libraries

Abstract

The article seeks to answer the question: how can libraries encourage and mediate the use of information so that individuals apply it critically in favor of their transformation, inclusion and cultural, social, informational, civic and labor justice? The objective is to understand how Information Literacy and Information Mediation, as Critical Interference Actions, crystallize into practical actions offered by libraries based on reports from the Library Map of the World of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions within the scope of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 - Quality Education of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. To this end, we consulted 8 initiatives related to SDG 4 from the Sustainable Development Goals Stories Section of IFLA’s Library Map of the World and interrelated them with the themes on Information Literacy and Mediation, which revealed to us that both, as Critical Interference Actions , in the scope of practice, crystallize in the conception of culture in which educational actions for the development/improvement of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values are in line with what represents and what has meaning, value and cultural and social significance to the subjects. In practice, Critical Interference Actions are configured as integrative, mediating, formative educational activities that take into account the person’s culture. This means that the choice of didactic-pedagogical approaches, type of content (themes), resources, spaces, materials, among others, are elements that must touch on people's cultural practices, so that the mediated actions of Information Literacy have meaning and meaning for their learning, providing them with criticality, inclusion, social, educational, civic and labor justice and social transformation.