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Center for Documentary Studies Neighborhoods Project records, 1997-2004 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies. Community Programs
Abstract:
The Neighborhoods Project was created as part of the Community Programs department within Duke's Center for Documentary Studies. According to the CDS website, it offered 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 provided a way to engage students in their own communities, focusing on their individual lives and stories through photographs, narrative writing, and storytelling. It provided a series of experiential learning activities that encouraged the use of photography, oral history, and narrative writing in an exploration of community and citizenship. Collection includes black-and-white photographs, negatives, and slides from projects created by students at Durham's E.K. Powe and W.G. Pearson elementary schools between 1997 and 2004. The images document the social life and the built environment in Durham, N.C., in city neighborhoods where the students live; they feature children, pets, houses and places of business, groups of adults, and other neighborhood scenes where whites, African Americans, and Spanish-seeking citizens live. Some materials are in Spanish. Also includes some student booklets and publications highlighting their projects as part of the program. Acquired as part of the Archive for Documentary Arts.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet
Approx. 1000 Items
Language:
Material in English and Spanish
Collection ID:
RL.00201

Background

Scope and Content:

Collection includes black-and-white photographs (a few are hand-colored), negatives, and slides from projects created by students at Durham's E.K. Powe and W.G. Pearson elementary schools between 1997 and 2004. The images document the social life and the built environment in Durham, N.C., in city neighborhoods where the students live; they feature children, pets, houses and places of business, groups of adults, and other neighborhood scenes. Also includes some student booklets and publications highlighting their projects as part of the program. Materials are sorted by school, with miscellaneous or unidentified materials in the last series. Also contains electronic and audiovisual recordings that require reformatting before use.

Acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Biographical / Historical:

Adapted from a Center for Documentary Studies website:

The Neighborhoods Project, created by local teachers and Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) staff members, offered 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 provided series of experiential learning activities that allowed students to engage with their own communities, focusing on their individual lives and stories through photographs, narrative writing, and storytelling, and exploring ideas of community and citizenship.

The Neighborhoods Project received 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. It was disbanded in 2010.

Acquisition Information:
The Center for Documentary Studies Neighborhoods Project records were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2011.
Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, October 2011

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, October 2011

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2011-0178

Materials added by Paula Jeannet, April 2013

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Center for Documentary Studies Neighborhoods Project records, 1997-2004 and undated
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Collection ID RL.00201
EAD ID cdsneighborhoods
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Total components 25
Last indexed 2023-09-06

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