Preserving the archives in the 21st century classroom: designing history classes around primary source research.
This article details an experiment in an 11th and 12th grade 3-week intensive course, the Science and History of Contagious Disease. The course was an interdisciplinary survey of how diseases are spread along with an examination of social responses. Although both lecture and discussion based, the co...
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| description | This article details an experiment in an 11th and 12th grade 3-week intensive course, the Science and History of Contagious Disease. The course was an interdisciplinary survey of how diseases are spread along with an examination of social responses. Although both lecture and discussion based, the course revolved primary around a trip in which we led approximately 22 students through archival research in the City of Savannah Municipal Archives on the Yellow Fever epidemics of 1820, 1854, and 1876. The article describes the numerous advantages of archival work, from direct contact with rare and unique primary sources to the frustration students felt struggling with nineteenth-century handwriting. The article also addresses some of the stumbling blocks experienced by students as well as the strategies and prompts used to foster student engagement with direct primary documents that led to a critical assessment of a group of sources and a new appreciation for local history. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-387339960a1a4664a31a245ddf351f342022-12-21T23:55:14ZengGeorgia Southern UniversityGeorgia Educational Researcher2471-00592019-01-0116110.20429/ger.2019.160106Preserving the archives in the 21st century classroom: designing history classes around primary source research.Julie PaceThis article details an experiment in an 11th and 12th grade 3-week intensive course, the Science and History of Contagious Disease. The course was an interdisciplinary survey of how diseases are spread along with an examination of social responses. Although both lecture and discussion based, the course revolved primary around a trip in which we led approximately 22 students through archival research in the City of Savannah Municipal Archives on the Yellow Fever epidemics of 1820, 1854, and 1876. The article describes the numerous advantages of archival work, from direct contact with rare and unique primary sources to the frustration students felt struggling with nineteenth-century handwriting. The article also addresses some of the stumbling blocks experienced by students as well as the strategies and prompts used to foster student engagement with direct primary documents that led to a critical assessment of a group of sources and a new appreciation for local history.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gerjournal/vol16/iss1/6Archivesprimary sourcesGeorgia historystudent researchYellow Fevercritical thinking |
| spellingShingle | Julie Pace Preserving the archives in the 21st century classroom: designing history classes around primary source research. Georgia Educational Researcher Archives primary sources Georgia history student research Yellow Fever critical thinking |
| title | Preserving the archives in the 21st century classroom: designing history classes around primary source research. |
| title_full | Preserving the archives in the 21st century classroom: designing history classes around primary source research. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Preserving the archives in the 21st century classroom: designing history classes around primary source research. |
| title_short | Preserving the archives in the 21st century classroom: designing history classes around primary source research. |
| title_sort | preserving the archives in the 21st century classroom designing history classes around primary source research |
| topic | Archives primary sources Georgia history student research Yellow Fever critical thinking |
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