Kaleidoscope activity : exploring the relationship between scientific knowledge, slavery, and colonialism

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Gust, Onni, author

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This Instructor Case Study helps students at A-level and first-year undergraduate level to think in a more nuanced and complex way about the production, circulation, and impact of colonial document...

This Instructor Case Study helps students at A-level and first-year undergraduate level to think in a more nuanced and complex way about the production, circulation, and impact of colonial documents. The activity teaches students that knowledge production about non-European peoples and places was a critical part of the consolidation of imperial power. It is called a kaleidoscope activity because it asks students to look at one source from a multiplicity of different angles and perspectives, generating multiple questions about that source. The activity teaches students how to approach a primary source and how historians build up their research questions; it is a useful starting point for developing students' own abilities to generate a research project.

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