Pluralising the archival paradigm

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Pluralising the archival paradigm

• Towards an action agenda

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Pedagogical issues

• Is the teaching program inclusive of all
  communities that are drawn in? Can we make it
  appropriate for all? How?
• More reflective curriculum design to make clear
  the lineage of what we teach avoid imposition
  of a particular worldview, while promoting sound
  professional practice

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Pedagogical issues

• Developing appropriate educational strategies to
  encourage
• knowing valuing students own heritage
• awareness of others heritage and
• engagement with communities.
• Educating professional educators and trainers a
  role for ICA-SAE

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Challenges for distance learning

• Developing appropriate pedagogical strategies
  that
• Avoid neo-colonialism via professional education
• Engage students with their own/local communities.
• Will it stifle or support development of local
  programs for professional education?

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Challenges for distance learning

• Finding and supporting local mentors
• Overcoming the technological divide
• Appropriate interactive learning technology
• Convincing the 45 who think DL is inappropriate
  for our discipline.

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Advantages of distance learning

• Life and career are not disrupted
• Good interactive strategies produce reflective
  professionals with ability to engage in
  professional debate
• BUT this needs attention to development of best
  practice and research in distance learning

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Action Professional associations

• Recommendations / course recognition requirements
  for educational programs to promote inclusive
  archival practice by their graduates.

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Action Professional associations

• Foreground these issues to the profession
• Policy statements
• Revision of statements on ethical practice
• Provision of CPD training on issues in engaging
  with indigenous users and minority communities
  (PROV Workshops as an exemplar)

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ActionResearch in learning and teaching

• Research into educating for the transition from
  coursework learning to research
• Turning our explorations into appropriate
  pedagogy into research
• Regular international meetings of educators (with
  and without students)

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Action Research and theory building

• Appropriate strategies for reconstruction of lost
  heritage
• Redefining the concept of a recordAlternative
  formats as records and means of building the
  record of a community, of preserving and passing
  on heritage (eg performance, storytelling, music,
  songs and chants, etc).

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Action Research and theory building

• Managing, preserving, indexing and promoting use
  of other archival formats (images, Geographical
  Information Systems, sound recordings)
• User education promoting understanding of
  archives in
• Indigenous and minority communities
• The wider community
• Web-based archival services.

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ActionResearch and funding

• Evaluating projects and funded programs
• Learn from mistakes
• Promote successful strategies
• Use as evidence for
• future research grants and
• lobbying for permanent program funding
• Developing research partnerships

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Action Developing the literature

• Encouraging publication of case studies and
  accounts of successful projects by
• Practitioners
• Research students
• Conferences (with refereed streams)
• Cross-institutional workshops for research
  students
• Journal publications.