Supporting Teaching with Primary Sources
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2020-11-12
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This research project documents the challenges and opportunities of incorporating primary sources into courses. Semi-structured interviews with faculty who use primary sources in their teaching revealed several key findings:
• Training in using primary sources for research and instruction is largely informal and self-taught
• Instructors incorporate both rare books and objects and their digital surrogates in their teaching, focusing on the materiality of the physical, along with the research value, particularly for teaching critical thinking, of the digital
• Instructors often choose non-traditional capstones when they teach largely with primary sources
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Special Collections, Teaching, Primary Sources