Relations between Basic Psychological Needs Theory and information literacy

• Autor(a) principal: Alcará, Adriana Rosecler
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/105632
• topic: Competência em informação; Motivação para aprender; Necessidades psicológicas básicas; Teoria da Autodeterminação; Formação da competência em informação; Information literacy. Motivation to learn. Basic psychological needs. Self-Determination Theory. Information Literacy Training.

This article presents the relations between the need of competence, autonomy and belonging, and information literacy. These three needs are part of the Self-Determination Theory and when they are satisfied, they influence intrinsic motivation that is essential for learning and inherent in information literacy. Regarding the procedures used, it presents a bibliographic research with an exploratory character and a qualitative approach. The research was based on a bibliographic survey on the CAPES Journal Portal and Google Scholar. Among the main results, it shows that information literacy can be impacted by competence, autonomy and belonging, as well as the satisfaction of these basic psychological needs can be supported by information literacy. This is because both have in common cognitive, affective and social aspects that are present in the actions for the training of the learner in the face of his demands and informational problems. It emphasizes that the association between motivation and information literacy is necessary and that the individual, collective and contextual variables that can influence the motivation to learn also imply interferences in information literacy. Thus, these variables must be taken into account when planning actions for the information literacy training