This workshop invites attendees to explore how we might design instruction for what happens before and after serendipitous discovery. Participants will try out, as students, the pedagogical interventions suggested by a 2021 exploratory study which weighed the relevance to library instruction of Björneborn's 2017 framework for serendipity. After trying the student exercises, attendees will respond to two case studies from the project and share what might work best for themselves, as teachers.
Participants will:
- sketch scholar profiles in order to successfully prepare themselves for primary source exploration.
- conduct shared reflection on primary source encounters in order to situate themselves in relation to the sources and to propose future research actions.
- respond to relevant learner case studies in order to brainstorm teaching interventions to support their students before and after source discovery.
