Organisers: Stefania Gargioni and Kate De Rycker (University of Kent), Lisa Gardner (University of Essex), Sarah Hall (University of East-Anglia)
The development of research in the digital humanities raised significant challenges for both the teaching and the display of various disciplines as history, literature, art and philosophy. The new research field concerned with the digital represent a new frontier for the teaching and the display of those humanities’ disciplines that are dealing with the early modern period. The extensive use and creation of various kinds of digital resources led to a broader access to early modern period. Following an interdisciplinary approach that aims to include the different disciplines within the humanities, this series of workshops will explore the relationship between the teaching and the display of the early modern studies and the use of digital resources. The project will create a unique collaboration between academics from various fields and non-academics partners that will led to new results in the study of digital humanities, early modern studies and research in education.
The project will consist of three workshops, each one focused on a different topic: (1) higher education, (2) secondary schools, and (3) cultural institution which are concerned with the dissemination of knowledge about the early modern age. Along with the workshops, a website and blog with a space for discussion has been set up in order to create a virtual place in which the themes introduced during the different workshops could be developed further, beyond the confines of the symposium.
The workshop will be concerned with the challenges posed by the use of digital humanities in secondary education (e.g. concrete use of these resources, ways in which these tools could be approached by students at different key-stages, perspective of both students and teachers in relation to the use of these digital resources). We welcome contributions based on both theoretical approaches and case-studies. We accept papers on the following topics:
- Educational perspectives on the use the use of digital resources in the study of the early modern period at secondary education level
- Challenges posed by the use of digital resources in the study of the early modern period at secondary education level
- Different employment of digital resources in relation to the different key-stages and the upcoming changes in GCSE criteria.
- Perspectives of both teachers and students in regards to the use of these resources
Proposals of 200- 250 words should be sent to dhbeyonduniversities@gmail.com by 30 September 2015.
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