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Colloquy on the Pedagogy of the Archive: Teaching and Learning Through Stone-Campbell Special Collections and Archives
Proposal abstract :
The Stone-Campbell Movement has a rich history in the United States, which is preserved and accessible at locations throughout the country. These collections are within seminaries and religiously affiliated colleges and universities within the Churches of Christ (COC), Disciples of Christ (DOC), and Independent Christian Church traditions of the Stone-Campbell Movement. With the pending relocation of the DOC Historical Society from Nashville to Bethany, West Virginia, and the uncertainty around the future roles of many of these denominational collections due to institutional budgetary pressures, as well as the need for a deeper historical consciousness among our students, we are at an opportune moment to gather as colleagues, and to discuss how to work together toward a common goal of better teaching and learning through use of archives and special collections for theological instruction. By bringing together key teaching faculty and instructional librarians within the tradition, we will construct a multi-day colloquy addressing the challenges and opportunities for teaching with special collections and archives among our shared Stone-Campbell traditions. These are lessons that will be structured, illustrated, and publically shared online for use and insight by others.
Learning Abstract :
The colloquy on the "Pedagogy of the Archive" gathered a diverse and broadly representative set of scholars from the Stone-Campbell Movement to discuss the importance of print and digital archives for theological education. The colloquy produced the Stone-Campbell Teaching Archive (http://digitalcommons.acu.edu/sc_teaching/). The colloquy illuminated the creative potential of a conversation among historians, archivists, and librarians for identifying and developing open access websites that mine the riches of theological archives that are most relevant and usable for theological education. The group realized the potential for reformatting and relocating archival images used in published church histories and historical encyclopedias, hosting these images in open access repositories that are organized and easily searched by taxonomies used in standard reference works and textbooks. The colloquy highlighted the pressing need for coordinated action among theological archives in the United States to preserve precious materials for teaching and research, as well as the value of "the teaching archive" for catalyzing digital preservation and theological description of archives.
The Stone-Campbell Movement has a rich history in the United States, which is preserved and accessible at locations throughout the country. These collections are within seminaries and religiously affiliated colleges and universities within the Churches of Christ (COC), Disciples of Christ (DOC), and Independent Christian Church traditions of the Stone-Campbell Movement. With the pending relocation of the DOC Historical Society from Nashville to Bethany, West Virginia, and the uncertainty around the future roles of many of these denominational collections due to institutional budgetary pressures, as well as the need for a deeper historical consciousness among our students, we are at an opportune moment to gather as colleagues, and to discuss how to work together toward a common goal of better teaching and learning through use of archives and special collections for theological instruction. By bringing together key teaching faculty and instructional librarians within the tradition, we will construct a multi-day colloquy addressing the challenges and opportunities for teaching with special collections and archives among our shared Stone-Campbell traditions. These are lessons that will be structured, illustrated, and publically shared online for use and insight by others.
Learning Abstract :
The colloquy on the "Pedagogy of the Archive" gathered a diverse and broadly representative set of scholars from the Stone-Campbell Movement to discuss the importance of print and digital archives for theological education. The colloquy produced the Stone-Campbell Teaching Archive (http://digitalcommons.acu.edu/sc_teaching/). The colloquy illuminated the creative potential of a conversation among historians, archivists, and librarians for identifying and developing open access websites that mine the riches of theological archives that are most relevant and usable for theological education. The group realized the potential for reformatting and relocating archival images used in published church histories and historical encyclopedias, hosting these images in open access repositories that are organized and easily searched by taxonomies used in standard reference works and textbooks. The colloquy highlighted the pressing need for coordinated action among theological archives in the United States to preserve precious materials for teaching and research, as well as the value of "the teaching archive" for catalyzing digital preservation and theological description of archives.