Crafting Communities Resources: This list shares sources that Vanessa Warne, Andrea Korda and Mary Elizabeth Leighton have authored (together or apart) or contributed to / supported through our shared work on the Crafting Communities project
Co-authored with librarians Heather Dean and Elizabeth Bassett and published in, this article explores how a digital exhibit supported our students鈥� creation of collages and also, in some cases, cut-up poetry, to explore Victorian-era scrapbooks and the nineteenth-century periodical press.
Published in, this article describes how the Getty Museum鈥檚 2020 challenge to recreate artworks at home provides an adaptable model of hands-on learning for instructors seeking experiential learning opportunities.
鈥淓xperiential Learning in the Victorian: What Can We Learn from the Object Lesson?鈥� This essay, solo-authored by Andrea Korda, appeared in 2022 in (edited by Kevin A. Morrison, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). NB. This collection includes several notable essays on hands-on learning. We especially like Helana Brigman鈥檚 essay on 鈥淐ooking the Victorian Recipe.鈥�
Forthcoming in summer 2023: 鈥淢aking Things Together: Collaborating and Mentoring on an OER Project.鈥� Co-authored with Denae Dyck and a group of ten student collaborators, this article links our hands-on crafting work to our team鈥檚 experiences with mentoring, professionalization, and collaboration.
: This trio of blog posts explores the origins of our project and different facets of it 鈥� from digital exhibit development to podcasting to online teaching and learning, and - notably- on crafting as a form of experiential learning with relevance to humanities classrooms.
: This recorded presentation delivered at the 2022 Festival of Teaching and Learning at the University of Alberta; it shares a record of what two students learned from crafting in the classroom.
Featuring Leith Davis, Claire Battershill, and Tommy Mayberry, this episode of the Victorian Samplingspodcast shares insights and reflections about innovative teaching, including hands-on teaching:
Suggested Reading: these resources have supported work done by the Crafting Communities team and enriched our experimentation with hands-on learning; many of these sources are cited in the publications listed above. We are grateful to Leith for introducing us to Andrew Griffin鈥檚 very useful and interesting essay.
On Making
Davidson, Hilary. 鈥淭he Embodied Turn: Making and Remaking Dress as an Academic Practice鈥� Fashion Theory. Vol. 23, 2019, pp. 329-362.
Foutch, E. E. 鈥淏ringing students into the picture: Teaching with tableaux vivants.鈥� Art History Pedagogy & Practice, 2(2): 2017, pp. 1鈥�23.
Griffin, Andrew. 鈥淭he Making of a Broadside Ballad.鈥�
Jordi, R. 鈥淩eframing the concept of reflection: Consciousness, experiential learning, and reflective practices.鈥� Adult Education Quarterly, 61(2): 2010, pp. 181鈥�97.
Ratto, Matt. 鈥淐ritical Making: Conceptual and Material Studies in Technology and Social Life.鈥� The Information Society, vol. 27, no. 4, 2011, pp. 252鈥�260,.
Michelson, E. 鈥淩e-membering: The return of the body to experiential learning.鈥� Studies in
Continuing Education, 20(2): 1998, pp. 217鈥�33.
Michelson, E. Gender, experience, and knowledge in adult learning: Alisoun鈥檚 daughters. Routledge: 2015.
Pasupathi, Vimala. 鈥淭he Commonplace Book Assignment.鈥� The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy: 2014.
On Mentoring and Collaboration
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University. Johns Hopkins UP, 2021.
hooks, bell. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. Routledge, 2003..
Risam, Roopika, et al. 鈥淏uilding an Ethical Digital Humanities Community: Librarian, Faculty, and Student Collaboration.鈥� College & Undergraduate Libraries, vol. 24, no. 2鈥�4, 2017, pp. 337鈥�349..
Schaffer, Talia. Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction. Princeton UP, 2021.
Siemens, Lynne, et al. 鈥溾�楳ore Minds Are Brought to Bear on a Problem鈥�: Methods of Interaction and Collaboration within Digital Humanities Research Teams.鈥� Digital Studies/le Champ Num茅rique, vol. 2, no, 2, 2010,.
On Accessibility
Kleege, Georgina and Scott Wallin. 鈥淎udio Description as a Pedagogical Tool.鈥� Disability Studies Quarterly, 35: 2015.
Marissa Nicosia
- Learn more about Cooking in the Archives here: and also: and
- Sources for working on Early Modern Recipes:
Mary Elizabeth Leighton:
- Panoramas on the Crafting Communities site:
Vanessa Warne:
- Read an essay - 鈥淕etting Scrappy鈥� - here:
- Collaborations with Librarians and Archivists:
Susan Gerofsky:
- Link to film Dancing Euclidean Proofs:
- Garden-based learning sites: and theorchardgarden.blogspot.ca
- Embodied Math Learning - and and and and
Claire Battershill:
- Amy Elkin鈥檚 work:
Melissa McAfee:
- Teaching with Primary Sources Collective:
Nicky Didicher: