Dimensions of Information Literacy in Vocational Education in Training aligned to Comprehensive Human Education

Abstract

This study proposes a multidimensional vision for Information Literacy in Vocational Education and Training. Its general objective is to propose a multidimensional vision for Information Literacy in Vocational Education and Training that highlights the particularities of this modality in the training of students for access, evaluation, and use of information, and that aligns these particularities with the proposal of Comprehensive Human Education. This is a basic, exploratory research study with a qualitative approach, using bibliographic research as a data collection instrument in intentional sampling. It concludes that Information Literacy in Vocational Education and Training, aligned with Comprehensive Human Education, makes it possible to conceive of a worker training that includes all dimensions of life (work, science, technology, and culture) in the educational process and that highlights the informational aspect of these dimensions. From this, the trainee worker who is information literate will become a complete individual (a skilled worker, but also a potential future leader) who knows how to access, evaluate, and use information to act in the world of work, to emancipate themselves within it, and to propose a more just and supportive collective alternative for all.