Moving Students to the Center through Collaborative Documents in the Classroom

Authors

Maura A. Smale, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow
Stephen Francoeur, CUNY Bernard M Baruch CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter or Section

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

Collaborative document creation allows groups of people to create and edit text in a shared space, and educators across all subject areas have embraced these tools in their classes. Library instructors are no exception—the authors have used collaborative documents with students in multiple instructional settings. We believe that collaborative documents can embody critical pedagogy in the library classroom. Creating and editing collaborative documents can acknowledge students’ prior experiences with research and the library and de-center the library instructor as the sole research expert in the room.

Comments

This work was originally published in "Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, Volume 2," edited by Nicole Pagowsky and Kelly McElroy.