A/CA Educational Guides
One of the central goals of Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA) is to increase public engagement with our partner organizations and their collections through an “activation” of archival materials that foregrounds the pressing need to rethink what archives can/might do in the 21st century. In order to achieve this goal, we have developed a series of Educational Guides designed to accompany film and video from A/CA’s Case Studies and facilitate their integration into K-12 and postsecondary classrooms through explicit links to the curriculum and suggestions for classroom discussion.
Each of the A/CA Educational Guides is designed for a particular education level and/or curriculum area. However, the guides are also easily adaptable to different grades and subjects, and educators are encouraged to use these guides as a starting point to create their own lesson plans.
Each guide contains important contextual information about the materials featured, including information on key participants, essays and reflections, and synopses of selected works for classroom discussion. The guides also include critical discussion questions oriented toward a range of topics in the areas of both form and content to encourage students and teachers to engage critically with A/CA’s archival materials by making connections between their context of creation and contemporary issues and experiences.
The educational guides are coordinated and written by Chloë Brushwood Rose and Axelle Demus in coordination with Archive/Counter-Archive’s case study leads and partners.
FOR DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND FURTHER READING, DOWNLOAD THE FULL EDUCATIONAL GUIDE PDFs FOR EACH PROGRAM: