Ethnic Studies and Public Scholarship: The Co-Creation of K–12 Curriculum Using University-Based Archival Materials

• In Event: Anarchives, Archives, and Justice: Critical Curriculum, Ethics, and Schooling

Abstract

Addressing the relative lack of representation of Asian American perspectives, narratives, and histories in the teaching of K-12 Social Studies, this study brings together scholars from Asian American Studies, Teacher Education, and Library and Information Studies to make archival materials accessible to K-12 teachers, engage in teacher professional development and collaboration meetings, and study the implementation of lesson plans on topics in Asian American Studies (specifically, Japanese American Incarceration/Internment during WWII and the life of Yuri Kochiyama) generated by K-12 teacher participants. Through careful and intentional moves to make archival materials accessible and relevant to teachers and students and then soliciting feedback from teachers, researchers committed to public scholarship improve the connection between their work and K-12 settings.

Authors

• Darlene Lee, University of California - Los Angeles

• Karen Umemoto, University of California - Los Angeles

• Tom Nguyen, University of California - Los Angeles

• Melanie Sonsteng-Person, University of California, Los Angeles

• Terry Allen, University of California - Los Angeles