Digital Cavafy Archive Modules: “Unlocking the Cavafy Archive: People – Images – Histories”
Discover the pioneering Online Cavafy Archive Modules, taken in ten lesson-steps. Open up new pathways towards the life and work of this poet from Alexandria, both inside and outside the classroom (all grades).
The CAVAFY ARCHIVE is livening and enriching the learning experience for students and educators, both inside and outside the classroom. Original learning materials, carefully curated examples, and unexpected connections drawn between documentary materials in digital collections, archives, libraries, catalogs, and stores in Greece and around the world all pave new avenues for understanding literary output and the cultural tradition in a series of ten standalone digital lessons. Activities supplemented by digital documentary materials are being made available to educators, students, and anyone else who might be interested, and feature all the possibilities open-access digital learning has to offer.
The aim of this initiative is to systematically familiarize all interested parties with the archival materials held in the Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, to propose thematic pathways that visitors can follow as they explore the archive, if they so wish, and to smooth the way for the teaching community to make use of Cavafy archive resources to broaden the methodologies and topics of literary education. The Digital Cavafy Archive Modules are a pioneering initiative at an international level: a first attempt at an expansive, detailed, and easy-to-use presentation of a personal literary archive, designed to be informative for the teaching community and anyone else who might be interested.Teachers of all grades, students, and the general public.
These materials are available to be accessed on classroom.onassis.org.
These learning materials were developed as part of the “Training Educators in the Use of Literary Archives and Research Libraries for Literacy” project, run in collaboration with the Hellenic Institute of Educational Policy (IEP), with Polyxeni Bista (Modern Greek literature lecturer, and lead IEP consultant) and Anastasios Emvalotis (Associate Professor at the Department of Primary School Education, University of Ioannina, and Member of the IEP Administrative Board) acting as consultants.
