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Teaching with Primary Sources I-ATE Workshop Resources

Teaching with Primary Sources: I-ATE Workshop Resources
This resource guide is a companion to the "Teaching with Primary Sources" Institutional Academy for Teaching Excellence (I-ATE) workshop, hosted by UM's Platform for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETAL). The workshop introduced faculty to teaching with primary sources, focusing on pedagogical strategies for student engagement.  Faculty presenters from UM Libraries, Special Collections, and the Lowe Art Museum gave an overview of primary sources, highlight specific UM resources through our distinctive and digital collections, and provide guidance on finding aids, resources, support.
UML Archival Finding Aids
To quickly search for manuscript and archival materials in University of Miami Libraries' collection, go to https://atom.library.miami.edu/.

 

Cover page from The Carrell: Journal of the Friends of the University of Miami Library, Vol. 31, 1996. Explore this collection and more through UML's Digital Collections.
Select Journal Articles on Teaching with Primary Sources
Anderberg, L. “STEM Undergraduates and Archival Instruction: A Case Study at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.” The American Archivist 78.2 (2015): 548-566.

Barlow, A. “Beyond Object Lessons: Object-Based Learning in the Academic Library.” In The Experiential Library: Transforming Academic and Research Libraries through the Power of Experiential Learning (2016) 22-42.
 
Brown, Amanda H.; Barbara Losoff; and Deborah R. Hollis. “Science Instruction Through the Visual Arts in Special Collections.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 14.2 (2014): 197-216.
 
Bunce, Louise. “Appreciation of Authenticity Promotes Curiosity: Implications for Object-Based Learning in Museums.” Journal of Museum Education, 2016, Vol. 41., No. 3 (230-239).
 
Garcia, P; J. Lueck and Elizabeth Yakel. “The Pedagogical Promise of Primary Sources: Research Trends, Persistent Gaps, and New Directions.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 45 (2019): 94-101.

Hammond, Anna; Ian Berry; Sheryl Conkelton; Sharon Corwin; Pamela Franks; Katherine Hart; Wyona Lynch-McWhite; Charles Reeve; John Stomberg. “The Role of the University Art Museum and Gallery.” Art Journal (September 1, 2006) Vol. 65, No. 3 (20-39).
 
Hauf, James E. “Teaching World Cultures through Artifacts.” Journal of Geography (June 14, 2010) Vol. 109, No. 3 (113-123).

Hayden, W. “And Gladly Teach: The Archival Turn’s Pedagogical Turn,” College English 80 (Nov. 2017): 133-58.
 
McPeek, Melinda, Jennifer Piegols, and Ian Post. “Reconceptualizing the Classroom: An Immersive Digital Primary Source Exercise During COVID-19,” Museum and Society 18:3 (2020): 337-40.

Pace, D. “The Amateur in the Operating Room: History and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” The American Historical Review 109 (Oct. 2004).

Rawlinson, Kate; Susan Wood; Mark Osterman; Claudia Sullivan. “Thinking Critically about Social Issues through Visual Material.” Journal of Museum Education (June 1, 2007) Vol. 32, No. 2 (155-174).
 
Robyns, Marcus C. “The Archivist as Educator: Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into Historical Research Methods Instruction.” The American Archivist 64:2 (Fall-Winter 2001): 371-73.

Rockenbach, Barbara. “Archives, Undergraduates, and Inquiry-Based Learning: Case Studies from Yale University Library.” The American Archivist 74:1 (Spring/Summer 2011): 297-311.

Sabalis, Samantha. “Creating the Museum Experience: Using Museum Education to Teach Oral Presentation Skills in the Composition Classroom.” Pedagogy (2016) Vol. 17, No. 1 (139-147).
 
Tuckett, T., & Lawes, E. “Object literacy at University College London Library Services.” Art Libraries Journal (2017), 42 (2), 99-106.
 
Books on Teaching with Primary Sources
Chatterjee, Helen and Leonie Hannan. Engaging the Senses: Object-Based Learning in Higher Education. (United Kingdom: Henry Ling Limited, at the Dorset Press, 2015).
 
Glesne, Corrine. The Exemplary Museum: Art and Academia. Edinburgh & Boston: Museums, Etc., 2013.
 
Jandl, Stefanie S.; Mark S. Gold. A Handbook for Academic Museums (Edinburgh; Boston: MuseumsEtc., 2012).
 
Keene, Suzanne. Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections (Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005).
 
Paris, Scott G. Perspectives on Object-centered Learning in Museums (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002).
 
Totleben, Kristen, and Lori Birrell, editors. Collaborating for Impact: Special Collections and Liaison Librarian Partnerships (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2016).
 
Wiley, David A. The Instructional Use of Learning Objects. (Bloomington, Indiana: Agency for Instructional Technology and Association for Educational Communications & Technology, 2002).
 
Background and Frameworks
“Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education,” American Library Association, February 9, 2015, http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework. 
 
“Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy,” the ACRL RBMS-SAA Joint Task Force on the Development of Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy, February 12, 2018, https://acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/15473. 
 
“What is Object-based Inquiry?” https://us.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/7139_alvarado_ch_1.pdf
 
Miles, Beverly. “Unleashing the Pedagogical Power of Object-based Learning” (2018). https://teche.mq.edu.au/2018/05/unleashing-the-pedagogical-power-of-object-based-learning/
 
"Out of Context: Understanding Learning through Museum Studies"
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/out-of-context/

 
Contact Information
This guide is maintained by the following individual(s):

Jason Sylvestre

Christina Larson

Shatha Baydoun

Roxane Pickens

Arthur Dunkelman

Paul Clough

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