How Do Home Educating Families’ Experiences of Information Literacy Relate to Existing Models?

In this paper the researcher discusses the findings of a small research project which explored the information literacy experiences of five home educating families and shows how these findings can be related t o existing research on information literacy. The research was constructivist with a grounded approach to data analysis and involved in-depth inte rviews with family groups. This paper suggests that models of information literacy tha t focus on the situated and the transformative have resonance for the experiences of home educating families.