Whose History?: Expanding Place-Based Initiatives Through Open Collaboration

Authors

Sean Visintainer
Stephanie Anckle, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Kristen Weischedel

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2020

Abstract

This chapter is the case study of a collaboration between the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Teaching & Learning Program and the University Library’s Special Collections. The collaboration, Whose History? uses place-based education (PBE) as the pedagogical underpinning of a multi-stage project of student-developed research, creation, and teaching. While PBE underpins the project, “openness” is the framework around which Whose History? is built. Teaching & Learning undergraduate students, referred to hereafter as teacher-candidates, use special collections resources to conduct research into regional history and culture, and then create open lesson plans from their findings. Select teacher-candidates teach their lesson plans in area classrooms, and exemplary lesson plans are published online as open educational resources, with project facilitators guiding Special Collections and Teaching & Learning student workers through the OER creation process.

Comments

Open Pedagogy Approaches ISBN: 978-1-942341-64-2

Recommended Citation

Visintainer, S. D., Anckle, S., & Weischedel, K. (2020). Whose History?: Expanding Place-Based Initiatives Through Open Collaboration. In Open pedagogy approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations. Pressbooks. https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/openpedagogyapproaches/chapter/whose-history-expanding-place-based-initiatives-through-open-collaboration/

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Publication Title

Open Pedagogy Approaches