Lesson One: Explore the Archive

Goal: Developing Communities of Practice and Praxis 

Objective: Interaction with the archive of material

Task: To see or hear  5-7 materials in the archive and respond to the prompt to action.

Prompt to action: Please consider what happens as you interact with the archive. Below are directions that help you to orient yourself. 

• Get comfortable 
• For each artifact, notice your thoughts and any sensations in your body.  
• You may write words, move your body, record audio, or otherwise create to process your thoughts and sensations. 

Resources

This lesson draws on constructivist pedagogy.

Explore the intersection of constructivist pedagogy and disability studies for educators. 

Explore embodiment research with autistic adults articulating sociotechnical environments and interpersonal webs of care. 

Do embodiment practices.

*Dr. Cho to add text here as an example of her class practice and her initial instruction to her students prompting them to explore the archive. She will ask Bill to link particular artifacts that she shared with her class.