Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Journal/Book/Conference Title Title

Radical Teacher

Issue

144

First Page

22

Last Page

33

Abstract

In preparation for the spring 2018 semester, the three of us came together to develop a Wikipedia-based project using feminist pedagogies in their teaching practice. With different assignments, students in the four courses collaborated in this effort to improve the diversity, breadth, and quality of information in the free encyclopedia in English. Moreover, the assignments challenged students' research and information literacy skills via an authentic learning experience, specifically editing Wikipedia on art- and diversity-related topics while engaging with the Wikipedia community and teaching other students how to edit Wikipedia on underrepresented topics--the “social responsibility of a collective struggle” for inclusion in knowledge production. The course Creating Wikipedia for the Arts prepared students to host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon during which they taught participants about Wikipedia and how to edit it. Leading up to the event, students enrolled in Nineteenth-Century Art, Arts of Africa, and Foundations in Art Education researched notable9 individuals relevant to the topic of their course who did not have an article in Wikipedia or only had a short stub article in need of expansion and improvement. Using this research, they came to the edit-a-thon to create and improve articles, thus making their research freely available to anyone with Internet access.

Department

Department of Art

Department

Rod Library

Comments

First published in Radical Teacher, n.114 (Summer 2019), by the University of Pittsburgh.

Original Publication Date

Summer 2019

DOI of published version

10.5195/rt.2019.517

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Date Digital

2019

Copyright

©2019 Angela Pratesi, Wendy Miller, and Elizabeth Sutton

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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