IL instruction and critical literacy

It's an idea that really inspires me at a time when I'm feeling somewhat jaded as a librarian, so I've definitely been wanting to pursue it. I'm reading an anthology of transformative learning essays right now called Learning as Transformation by Mezirow, et al. and it's really renewing my interest in the possibilities for the teaching I do. I'm going to check out the book by Joan Wink and return to Freire as well. I've been seeing Karen Kitchener come up often in what I've been reading, so I'm going to get my hands on Developing Reflective Judgment.

I think that there's potential in IL instruction for inciting students to think more about what truth and authority are. But there's a lot of fear in the profession that students can't be trusted with that kind of knowledge. Or that it won't do them any good for the type of work they're being asked to produce in their classes. There's a sense that they have to learn what we mean by authority and credibility first before we reveal that it's so much more complicated than that. But I'm starting to lose interest in my own teaching when I reinforce a good/bad approach to information.