Alexandra Chassanoff, Elliott Kuecker, Lyric Grimes, Gabi Benedit
{"title":"“It definitely got my mind whirling:” Building community partnerships for teaching with primary sources","authors":"Alexandra Chassanoff, Elliott Kuecker, Lyric Grimes, Gabi Benedit","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09547-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite the growth in digitization and broad access to online instructional resources, relatively few empirical studies in North America have examined how elementary, middle, and secondary teachers are using primary source materials in their classrooms. This article reports on the Diving into Archives! (DIA) project, a research initiative housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goal of the project is to build partnerships between archivists and teachers, aiming to support the use of primary sources in classroom settings and to encourage new kinds of historical thinking. This article situates the DIA initiative as an exemplary case for encouraging cross-domain collaboration, by sharing practical strategies for outreach and access efforts, designs for instructional support, and guidance for expanding meaningful collaborations between teachers and archivists.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-026-09547-8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Despite the growth in digitization and broad access to online instructional resources, relatively few empirical studies in North America have examined how elementary, middle, and secondary teachers are using primary source materials in their classrooms. This article reports on the Diving into Archives! (DIA) project, a research initiative housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goal of the project is to build partnerships between archivists and teachers, aiming to support the use of primary sources in classroom settings and to encourage new kinds of historical thinking. This article situates the DIA initiative as an exemplary case for encouraging cross-domain collaboration, by sharing practical strategies for outreach and access efforts, designs for instructional support, and guidance for expanding meaningful collaborations between teachers and archivists.
期刊介绍:
Archival Science promotes the development of archival science as an autonomous scientific discipline. The journal covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practice. Moreover, it investigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and data. It also seeks to promote the exchange and comparison of concepts, views and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the world.Archival Science''s approach is integrated, interdisciplinary, and intercultural. Its scope encompasses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context. To meet its objectives, the journal draws from scientific disciplines that deal with the function of records and the way they are created, preserved, and retrieved; the context in which information is generated, managed, and used; and the social and cultural environment of records creation at different times and places.Covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practiceInvestigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and dataPromotes the exchange and comparison of concepts, views, and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the worldAddresses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context