Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CASE STUDIES IN
ARCHIVAL EDUCATION
- Case Studies
- Problem or situation
in a real or imagined
organisation.
- Include
- Possible solutions or actions
arising from the situation.
- Purpose
- For studentsto work through the
problem and devise reasonable
and workable solutions.
- The case study puts the
student in the problem solver’s
shoes.
- It doesn't provide answers.
- It raises questions
- Help students
- Following skils
- Identifying and
recognising
problems
- Understanding and
interpreting data
- Thinking analytically
and critically
- Exercising and
making judgments
- Communicating ideas
and opinions
- Making and
defending decisions
- Case studies should be
as realistic as possible
- actual
situations
- be fictionalised to
protect
confidentiality
- Using case studies
- Teaching method
- Requires
- interpretation and discussion
among students and between
students and teacher
- Teaching Methods
- Class discussion
- among the entire class, or
the class may be divided
into small groups
- Role play
- the students may be given ‘parts’
as people in the case
- to present their ‘character’s’
concerns and point of view
- Interviews
- Students required to ask particular
questions needed to provide their
analysis and recommendations
- Assingments
- student required to
write an analysis and
recommendations
- Lifespan
- quickly become obsolete
- A case study may only be relevant for two
or three years before being revised
- Topics
- Interpretive topics are
well suited to case study
instruction.
- Organisational
framework
- identifying lines of authority
- Facility and
resource
management
- managing personnel
- Records management
- building or adapting a
records centre facility
- Acquisition and
collection
development
- identifying gaps in holdings
- Control of holdings
- protecting holdings from
physical damage
- Reference services
- balancing access and
confidentiality
- Use of technologies
- implementing automated
systems in the archives