INFORMATION EDUCATION IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES AS PUBLIC POLICIES
UMA ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA ENTRE BRASIL, PORTUGAL E FINLÂNDIA
Keywords:
Information education, public policies, school librariesAbstract
The increasing complexity of the contemporary information environment, marked by information disorders such as disinformation, highlights the need for public policies aimed at addressing this phenomenon. In this context, the present article, resulting from Machado’s (2026) master's research, seeks to discuss information education as a State public policy, considering Brazilian school libraries as its locus of implementation. This study adopts an applied research approach, with a qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive design, using document analysis based on the content analysis technique. The corpus consisted of normative documents from Brazil, in order to discuss the scenario of information education, and from Portugal and Finland, to establish a comparative perspective and explore possibilities for application within the Brazilian context. The findings indicate that, although relevant initiatives exist in Brazil, information education has not yet been consistently institutionalized as a public policy. In contrast, the Portuguese experience demonstrates the feasibility of integrating education, literacies, and school libraries. It is concluded that the consolidation of information education as a State policy requires interinstitutional coordination, the centrality of school libraries, continuous governance mechanisms, and the explicit incorporation of the theme into Brazilian educational policies.