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[Identification of item], Neighborhoods Project Records, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Neighborhoods Project Records were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2011.
Processed by Meghan Lyon, October 2011
Encoded by Meghan Lyon, October 2011
Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2011-0178
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Excerpted from the Center for Documentary Studies website:
The Neighborhoods Project, created by local teachers and CDS staff members, offers North Carolina elementary school teachers an innovative and effective way to meet social studies goals outlined in the state's standard course of study. The project provides a way to engage students in their own communities, focusing on their individual lives and stories through photographs, narrative writing, and storytelling.
The Neighborhoods Project can also be adapted for an exciting summer or after-school activity coordinated by artists, educators, and community activists. It provides a series of experiential learning activities that encourage the use of photography, oral history, and narrative writing in an exploration of community and citizenship. The Neighborhoods Project helps young people begin to see their everyday environments and themselves in new ways.
The Neighborhoods Project at the Center for Documentary Studies receives support from the Civic Education Consortium, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Collection includes photographs, negatives, and slides from projects created by students at Durham's E.K. Powe and W.G. Pearson elementary schools between 1999 and 2004. Also includes some student booklets and publications highlighting their projects as part of the program. Collection has been sorted by school, with miscellaneous or unidentified materials in the last series. Collection also contains unprocessed/un-reformatted electronic and audiovisual materials that require reformatting before use. Audiovisual and electronic media files are closed to patrons.
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Neighborhoods Project Records was just one part of the Center for Documentary Studies Community Programs' initiatives. Other related collections held in the Rubenstein Library include:
Includes 16 audio cassettes, 10 floppy disks, and 2 zip disks.
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