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Mehta, Mohit P. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2022
In this article, I consider the use of Asian American digital archives as sources of critical inquiry for the elementary social studies classroom. First, I provide a brief overview of early South Asian American history, focusing on Punjabi and Bengali migrations. Then, I orient educators to two noteworthy community archives, the South Asian…
Descriptors: Archives, Teaching Methods, Asian Americans, Elementary School Students
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Flynn, Kara – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
With increasing demand for archival instruction and growing class sizes, archivists and special collections librarians are struggling to accommodate larger classes, both logistically and pedagogically. This paper reviews the literature on approaches from both higher education and archival instruction to identify trends for teaching big classes.…
Descriptors: Archives, Library Materials, Library Services, Large Group Instruction
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Amsing, Hilda T. A.; Dekker, Jeroen J. H. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
Within the polarised political culture of the 1970s, in which political differences were emphasised instead of being played down, Dutch right-wing politicians frequently accused left-wing politicians and educators of indoctrination in educational settings. In this period of economic stagnation and an ongoing Cold War, peace education -- which was…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Political Attitudes, Educational History
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Houlihan, Barry – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2019
This article examines the development of a bespoke primary source literacy module for the study of childhood in Ireland. The BA (Children's Studies) at National University of Ireland Galway is a unique interdisciplinary degree that equips students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the lives of children and childhood today. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Primary Sources, Information Literacy, Foreign Countries
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Rysavy, Monica D. T.; Michalak, Russell; Hunt, Kevin – American Journal of Distance Education, 2018
The Digital Archival Advertisements Survey Process (DAASP) model is a collaborative active learning exercise designed to aid students in evaluating primary source documents of print-based advertisements. By deploying DAASP, the researchers were able to assess the students' ability to evaluate their biases of the advertisements in a first-year…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Archives
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Carey, Elaine; Pun, Raymond – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2016
A collaborative course introduced history students to a variety of digital tools and printed materials for historical research. The authors explore the development of this program by a historian and a librarian as a case study to address the value of teaching history outside of the classroom and allowing students to conduct research on-site. This…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Archives, Primary Sources, Library Role
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Schocker, Jessica B. – History Teacher, 2014
Research in history education has long suggested that teaching with primary source documents adds significant value to a student's learning experience, resulting in deeper levels of understanding beyond mere fact acquisition. Recent studies have specifically identified the value of using digitized primary sources. One category of primary source…
Descriptors: Females, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Primary Sources
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Gibbons, William C.; Petty, Adrienne; Van Nort, Sydney C. – History Teacher, 2014
In the sixties, student-led protest movements transformed university and college campuses across the United States. The 1969 takeover at the City College of New York had arguably the most far-reaching consequences of all of the protests of this period. As the flagship campus of the City University of New York system, City College had a well-known…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Urban Universities, Social Action, Reputation
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Greenhut, Stephanie – Social Education, 2011
When Americans from the eastern part of the United States began moving west in large numbers in the mid-nineteenth century, tensions escalated and conflicts erupted between and among settlers, railroad workers, ranchers, the United States military, and numerous Native American tribes. Incorporating balanced consideration of these diverse and…
Descriptors: United States History, Ownership, American Indian History, Archives
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Krause, Magia G. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2008
This article reports on the results of a survey of instructional practices in a variety of archival and manuscript repositories. The results of the survey suggest that archives professionals devote a significant amount of time and energy to instructing users of primary sources. However, a relatively small number of respondents conduct formal…
Descriptors: Archives, Teaching Methods, Surveys, Primary Sources
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Carini, Peter – Journal of Archival Organization, 2009
Primary source materials are increasingly being thought of as curricular resources and archivists are being asked to play the role of educator. This article, based on the session "Archivists as Educators: Integrating Primary Sources into the Curriculum" looks at the role of the primary source in undergraduate and secondary school curricula and…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Research Skills
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Abbott, Lynda; Grayson, Richard S. – Teaching History, 2011
This article, by Lynda Abbott and Richard Grayson, offers a fascinating example of collaboration between school and university, focused on the development of a community archive. The project--run as an extra-curricular activity--was originally inspired by a concern to preserve the personal stories of those whose lives were affected by the Second…
Descriptors: Local History, War, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Thompson, Jennifer Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Colorado Women's College (CWC), a private, Baptist college for women in Denver, Colorado, first welcomed students to its campus in 1909, making it one of only a handful of women's colleges in the American West, where coeducation predominated. This dissertation describes and interprets the curriculum offered at CWC in the period from 1909 to 1967.…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Oral History, Two Year Colleges, Females
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Castro, Josefina Granja – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
This article rescues a series of texts produced by schoolteachers between 1820 and 1890 in order to comply with the ruling educational authority's request for the elaboration of reports on their institutions. These documents are located in the General Public Instruction collection of the Archivo Historico del Distrito Federal. The schoolteachers'…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational History
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Malkmus, Doris J. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2008
Archivists have created millions of digital primary source images that have contributed to the transformation in history teaching. This generation of students arrive on the college campus familiar with primary source documents but as yet unprepared to search finding aids or understand archival collections. This review of archival, educational, and…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Archives
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