Handwritten culture through digital native eyes : student participation in the digital fragmentology project Textus invisibilis

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Handwritten culture through digital native eyes: student participation in the digital fragmentology project Textus invisibilis
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Molinari, Alessandra
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Open Information Science, 5, 2021, 1, S. 89-118
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Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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E-Article
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH (CrossRef)
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The present paper addresses the issue of how interest-driven learning can enhance an attitude of student-generated inquiry in the learning process so to promote student participation in university research projects. The research question is how wonder as an epistemic emotion may sustain students’ interest-generated questioning, and how the latter may influence the design of a university research project. As a case-study, the paper describes a laboratory on palaeography which took place in Spring 2019 at an Italian State Archive within a University bachelor program in the context of a digital fragmentology project. To design the laboratory and establish qualitative analysis methods for its data, an interdisciplinary educational approach was designed that combines interest-driven learning, emotion theory, value theory, hermeneutics, and User Experience, on the background of Ernst Cassirer’s view of a human being as an <jats:italic>animal symbolicum</jats:italic>. In the laboratory, the students’ questions and hypotheses arising from their interaction with historical scripts and Medieval handwriting culture are helping redesign some aspects of the research project <jats:italic>Textus invisibilis</jats:italic> both on the level of the research design and of the team composition, as well as pointing to a novel relevance of state archives and historical libraries in higher education.</jats:p>
Umfang
89-118
Sprache
Englisch
ISSN
2451-1781
DOI
10.1515/opis-2021-0005