Critical Need for Critical Pedagogy: Primary Sources Teaching Fellowship Program at UNC-Chapel Hill

Abstract

This panel highlights UNC’s Primary Sources Teaching Fellowship and features the perspectives of its fellows. The Fellowship offers funding and pedagogical training while building networks of support for new professionals from backgrounds underrepresented in the special collections profession who are interested in the field of library instruction. The Fellowship provides a grounding in critical pedagogy as well as tested methodologies for teaching with primary sources. Designed around an ethics of care, it offers graduate students the skills necessary to lead primary source interactions, and it provides resources and guidance on how to teach without ignoring power dynamics and difficult materials.