Palavras como flores, conceitos como cercas: literacia da informação, desigualdades sociais no ensino superior

Some concepts of literacy are presented and their operability in information literacy in higher education training programs is questioned. The selection of conceptual approaches is based on the requirement that their paradigmatic framing should allow social inequalities in learning processes to be addressed. The concepts developed by Paul G. Zurkowski, Paulo Freire and Walter Mignolo are presented, and their relevance to this problematics is commented