Muncie Schools and Communities Project records
Scope and Contents
This collection includes taped interviews, metadata forms, and photographs from several Ball State University EDFON 420 classes in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 2007 to 2009.
Dates
- 2007-2009
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Archives and Special Collections.
Historical Note
Ball State University students documented the Muncie Community School Corporation from 2007-2009 through a series of interviews, surveys, and observations. The project encompassed several elementary schools including Longfellow, Storer, Mitchell, Sutton, Grissom, Northview, and Westview as well as Southside High School.
EDFON420 is an academic class at Ball State University that studies the complex relationships between schools and society through the disciplines of sociology, history, and philosophy of education. The goal of the class is to develop disciplines of normatives, interpretive, and critical perspectives on education.
Extent
2 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in the following series:
Series 1: Muncie School and Communities Longfellow Elementary School interview forms and tapes, 2008-2009
Series 2: Muncie Schools and Communities Storer Elementary School interview forms and tapes, 2009
Series 3: Muncie Schools and Communities Mitchell Elementary School interview forms and tapes, 2008
Series 4: Muncie Schools and Communities Sutton Elementary School interview forms and tapes, 2008
Series 5: Muncie Schools and Communities Grissom Elementary School interview forms and tapes, 2009
Series 6: Muncie Schools and Communities Northview Elementary School interview forms and tapes, 2009
Series 7: Muncie Schools and Communities Southside High School interview forms and tapes, 2007
Series 8: Muncie Schools and Communities Westview Elementary School interview forms and tapes, 2008
Custodial History
This collection was received by Archives and Special Collections as a records donation from Mark Malaby.
Processing Information
Collection processing completed 2012/04/09 by Bethany Fiechter. EAD finding aid created 2012/04/09 by Bethany Fiechter.
- Ball State University -- Students Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Delaware County (Ind.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Delaware County (Ind.) -- History -- 21st century -- Sources Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Documents Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Education Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Elementary schools Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- High schools Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Interviews Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Muncie (Ind.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Muncie (Ind.) -- History -- 21st century -- Sources Subject Source: Local sources
- Photographs Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Surveys Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Muncie Schools and Communities Project records
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Stoeckel Archives of Local History Repository
Alexander M. Bracken Library
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie Indiana 47306 USA
libarchives@bsu.edu
