Hello,
My name is Itza Carbajal and I am a doctoral student at the University of Washington. I am reaching out today in hopes that you might help me distribute the following call for survey participants for an ongoing study described below. Specifically, I am seeking participation from archivists working in the state of Washington. If you have any further questions, please let me know. Thank you.
Study Name: Everybody is Welcomed, Everybody is Needed: Using Archives in Interdisciplinary K-12 Teaching and Learning
Principal Researcher: Itza Carbajal, itzac@uw.edu
Dear Potential Participant,
Please allow me a moment of your time to ask for your assistance with an ongoing research study titled, "Everybody is Welcomed, Everybody is Needed: Using Archives in Interdisciplinary K-12 Teaching and Learning." My name is Itza Carbajal and I am a PhD student from the Information School at the University of Washington. I am writing to request your support or participation in my research study about the use of archives in interdisciplinary K-12 teaching and learning with a focus on High School settings. Specifically, I am seeking participants that identify as Archivists as this group represents one of my identified populations of interests. As an archivist, I seek your perspectives on how you may promote or foster discussions on environmental topics through your archival work.
The broader research study looks to identify and assess the role archives play in K-12 education with a focus on high school education when discussing issues regarding environmental change. Research data will be collected either through a semi-structured survey distributed to four distinct populations including high school teachers, students, teachers in training, and archivists and/or onsite or virtual observations of class instruction at designated high schools. By studying the current and potential use of archives through participant accounts, findings aim to highlight how students through support from teachers and archivists can better use and learn from archives in order to understand the ways humans enact, interact, memorialize and conceptualize themselves and their environment through historic records. These findings will also analyze the use of archives in interdisciplinary teaching and learning methods in hopes of highlighting overlapping themes and approaches across disciplines.
More information on the study can be found here: bit.ly/ArchivesClassroom
This email requests participation for the survey available between May to July 2021
If you are unable or uninterested in participating, but would be willing to share this call for participants, I would appreciate it.
This study is sponsored by the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School and is completely voluntary. If you'd like to participate or have any questions about the study, please email me at itzac@uw.edu.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,