Event Title
Session A - Student Mentoring: The Historian's Apprenticeship: Developing Inquiry-Based Courses and Projects
Location
Library Classroom
Start Date
18-3-2016 10:30 AM
End Date
18-3-2016 11:30 AM
Description
Increasingly historians and archivists are working collaboratively to develop unique and interactive research projects utilizing primary sources from various local and national repositories. This session will highlight the pedagogy and methodology for developing history courses that invites students to participate in an “apprenticeship” in the historian’s craft designed to offer an inquiry-based intellectual space fostering discovery, curiosity, empathy, and reciprocity. For many learners of history this experience represents an instructional reorientation from the primacy of “content mastery” toward the hands-on practice of the craft of the discipline—posing questions, asserting arguments, interpreting sources, interrogating historiography, performing interviews, constructing narratives, and applying history as a “way of thinking” and “way of knowing.” This session will also highlight strategies for developing these types of courses and/or collaborating with faculty to develop curriculum that directly centers primary sources into the course, present research findings in a forum or class, and then also preserve the research at the archive or library to share with various groups and communities. Examples will be shared from both an archival and historian perspective specifically showcasing courses that focus on diversity.
Session A - Student Mentoring: The Historian's Apprenticeship: Developing Inquiry-Based Courses and Projects
Library Classroom
Increasingly historians and archivists are working collaboratively to develop unique and interactive research projects utilizing primary sources from various local and national repositories. This session will highlight the pedagogy and methodology for developing history courses that invites students to participate in an “apprenticeship” in the historian’s craft designed to offer an inquiry-based intellectual space fostering discovery, curiosity, empathy, and reciprocity. For many learners of history this experience represents an instructional reorientation from the primacy of “content mastery” toward the hands-on practice of the craft of the discipline—posing questions, asserting arguments, interpreting sources, interrogating historiography, performing interviews, constructing narratives, and applying history as a “way of thinking” and “way of knowing.” This session will also highlight strategies for developing these types of courses and/or collaborating with faculty to develop curriculum that directly centers primary sources into the course, present research findings in a forum or class, and then also preserve the research at the archive or library to share with various groups and communities. Examples will be shared from both an archival and historian perspective specifically showcasing courses that focus on diversity.