A diplomatic-informed archival pedagogy: fostering student-centered learning environments for novice archival researchers

What is it about?

Given the realities of archival instruction we argue to spend class time demonstrating to novice researchers how to be researchers who effectively use primary sources, not how to be archivists. Diplomatics, the foundation of archival science and legal theory, can be applied pedagogically to provide concrete guidance to teach students to use archives in more intentional, creative, and disciplinary authentic ways.

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