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Archives for Learning and Education Section Annual Conference 2014

The Archivist as a Teacher

The Frith Centre, Gloucestershire Archives, 30th May 2014

Archivists are often portrayed as professional multi-taskers. One of the most valuable skills they possess is the ability to present, disseminate and make information accessible to a variety of audiences in a wide range on contexts and formats. In some respects, archivists share skill-sets with teachers and more broadly speaking with education professionals. This is particularly the case when archivists become involved in the development of educational resources.

This one-day conference would like to explore that aspect of the archivist’s work. Some of the issues we wish to address on the day include: 

• should archivists consider themselves to be 'teachers' - what is teaching and is that what we do in these situations?
• what are the skills that archivists need to share with teachers?
• what do archivists bring to the classroom that teachers and other education professionals can't?
• what should archivists create? – (perspectives on changes to the curriculum in England and Wales and Scotland)
• how can archivists market/advertise their existence and the existence of their resources/services?

The conference will be held at the Frith Centre, which is on the same site as Gloucestershire Archives, on Friday 30th May. The event will be followed by the ALES AGM which everyone is welcome to attend.

For information about how to get there please see: http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives/article/107383/The-Frith-Centre.

Cost: £25 for ARA members, £30 for non-ARA members, including lunch and refreshments.

For online bookings please see: is http://www.archives.org.uk/events/viewevent.html?eventid=281

PROGRAMME

9:00 – 9:20	Registration and coffee

9:20 – 9:30	Introduction and housekeeping

9:30 – 10:15	Keynote lecture 1 – Ian Coulson, Schools History Project, title tbc

10:15 – 10:45	Pupils in the Archive, Archives in the Classroom: Experiences of an Archivist/’Teacher’ at Westminster School, Elizabeth Wells, Westminster School Archives

10:45 – 11:15	In Your Own Backyard: Using Local Services to Support the Primary National Curriculum from 2014, Becky Sheldon, Derbyshire Record Office

11:15 – 11:30	Discussion

11:30 – 11:45	Tea/Coffee break

11:45 – 12:15	Engagement Through Participation: Designing Research, Edward Bottoms, Architectural Association Archives

12:15 – 12:45	Every Picture Tells a Story: Using Old Photographs as a Teaching Aid for NEETS, Dr Ann McVeigh, PRONI

12:45 – 13:00	Discussion

13:00 – 13:45	Lunch

13:45 – 14:30	Keynote lecture 2 – Scotland’s Archives and Excellence in Learning, Douglas Roberts, Scottish Council on Archives, and Rachel Hart, University of St. Andrews Archives and Special Collections

14:30 – 15:00	Learning to Read: The Archivist as a Teacher in the Provision of Palaeography Classes, Peter Lester, Nottinghamshire Archives

15:00 – 15:30	Making the Case for Archives Learning and Outreach as a Standalone Profession, Sarah Chapman and Lynsey McNab, University of Aberdeen Archives and Special Collections

15:30 – 15:45	Discussion

15:45 - 16:30	ALES AGM

16:30 		Conclusion and departure

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