Identifying Stakeholders: Who Cares?

Title

Identifying Stakeholders: Who Cares?

Description This is an exercise to get student to think and discuss different kinds of stakeholders surrounding a topic and what genres of sources those stakeholders might publish in (both formal &
informal).
Steps
  1. Beforehand, create a stakeholder chart on a topic relevant to the course content (see stakeholders example below)
  2. During class, show students an example stakeholder chart. Talk through some of the different types of stakeholders and the sources of information that the stakeholders produce (publications, etc.)
  3. Ask students to respond to: what’s listed there, who they might add as a stakeholder?what types of sources they might add? where would they find these sources (web, library)?
  4. Transition from the discussion to strategies for finding this wide variety of sources in search engines and library databases
  5. Give students a blank version of the stakeholders chart and/or ask them to tag each source that they find with a stakeholder & source type tag
Tags  Evaluating sources; In-class
Time  10 minute discussion; 10-minute reflection on student’s stakeholder / source tags
Attachments noun_229116Stakeholders Worksheet; noun_204955Stakeholders Example