A Study On The Information-literacy Education In Higher Teacher Education Institutions

The key to vitalize a nation is education, and the key to vitalize education is the teacher. Since the society places great hopes on education, it demands highly the qualification of teachers. Today, we are stepping into an era with characteristics of the rapid growth of information, which is becoming an extremely important factor in many aspects of society. Information has become a worldwide trend of the social and economic development of the whole world. Therefore, in order to meet the challenge of this society, our teachers must shoulder the responsibility for the cultivation of students' ability to obtain and filter information rapidly, to discriminate kinds of information accurately, and to work on and process information creatively. These abilities are of equal information and lifetime benefit to students as the basic ability to read, write and calculate.As the cradle of teacher training, Higher Teacher Education Institutions should closely throb with pulse of our times, and adopt positive and effective measures to cultivate new teachers required by the needs of the new age and social development. This essay, therefore, based on the reference of abundant research literature on information-literacy education, has investigated the present situation of college or university students' information literacy, and has found out the existing problems and analyzes the various causes of them. To counter these problems and their cause, this essay has also proposed some tentativecountermeasures to develop information-literacy education in Higher Teacher Education Institutions.This article consists of five parts, the first three of which deal with the theoretic and practical significance of the information-literacy education through discussing the background, conception and necessity of it .The fourth part is an investigation on the state-of-art of the information-literacy education in the Higher Teacher Education Institutions in Chongqing by adopting stratified random sampling. By means of questionnaire survey as well as interview survey, I make the investigation, which involves such four dimensions as the students' knowledge, consciousness, competence and morality of information literacy. The subjects involve three levels of structure of specialty, undergraduate and postgraduate. Through employing the SPSS 10.0 and ORINGIN5.0 software, I make the statistical analysis of the date so as to find out the problems existing in our information-literacy education and the reasons. Then, the article discusses how to improve it. Firstly, to renew our idea and realize the significance of it. Secondly, to improve the curriculum on literature search and computer. Thirdly, to adjust the curriculum structure and improve the teaching materials. Fourthly, to join the information-literacy education with those of the other subjects. Finally, to set up the new model and assessment for teaching .