Modern trends in national archives services: a symbol of educational archives services.

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Faculty of Arts . Cairo University

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Abstract
The national archives are continuously developing its archival services, providing services to all user groups of different ages and disciplines in general. The awareness of the importance of archival records and the information which introduces are being grown. Consequently, the goal of this study is to be aware for the educational archives services, introduce symbols of educational projects and its activities built in archival records form the national archives of United Kingdom, and the national archives of the United States, in addition to the types of these archival educational services introduced in cooperation with the archivists and teacher, and the outcomes of that for the educational process, depends on the archival records, specially in teaching history by using educational strategies such as, critical thinking, problem solving and analysis, which helps the educator to discover the relations between history events and its facts. so, this study clarifies the different between the national archives of UK & USA in, how to use archival records in educational process.
The study advised the national archives in Arab world to follow this development in archives services and, provides a similar model for teaching history subjects through the archival records of high school students according to the Egyptian curriculum, to contribute in planning for introducing educational archive services by a suitable archival records for doing that.

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