For this class, students created zines to tell stories about the school systems established by colonial governments in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Each student selected a specific example of colonial schooling and conducted library research to learn more about it. Based on their findings, they crafted a narrative about the history and legacy of colonial schooling. Zines included both text and images, as well as considering layout and design elements. This project was interwoven throughout the class starting with the first session, with multiple scaffolded assignments throughout.
Four scaffolded workshops at the start of the semester, including an introduction to zines and looking at examples, research and finding scholarly sources, examining layout in relation to the course topic, and thinking through outlining a physical zine in a hands-on prototyping workshop.
Guiding questions for library support included: 1) What is a zine? 2) How do you find scholarly sources on your topic? and 3) How does layout shape the story you can tell? How is this related to colonial and anti-colonial epistemology?
