1. Section A: Introduction and background
2. Introduction
3. Information literacy in adult returner students: The pre-entry class case study
4. Section B: Psychological insights
5. Critical thinking and information literacy
6. Epistemological thinking, metacognition and their relation to critical thinking and information literacy
7. Student learning and information literacy
8. Section C: Contributions from the library and information sector
9. Curriculum development and the new curriculum for information literacy
10. The ACRL(2000) standards and the ACRL(2015) revised framework
11. UNESCO contribution to information literacy
12. Section D: Social epistemology
13. Information literacy and social epistemology

"Reviews psychological research literature in several pertinent areas of psychology and, in particular, the development of student's informal theories about knowledge (ie, their epistemology), their critical thinking and their metacognition (ie, their conscious deliberative control of their own thinking processes)"--Back cover.