why does the heritage project matter
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Introduction to community-centered teaching.TRANSCRIPT
Why does the Heritage Project matter?
Department of
Education knows it matters
Communities are created in the stories they tell the next generation
Kit Carson
Engaged in the
real work
Stories loose in the worldStories are more powerful than
geography and economics
Crisis in the Narrative
Environment
Epidemic of Disengagement
Lack of “narrative fit”between the stories of schoolingand students’ personal lives
Who are we?
Professionals?Or members of a local community?
Narrative vacuums will be filled
Grassroots revolution
Meaning Motivates
Playing the infinite game
The Pursuit of Truth
including older and more traditional
understandings of truth
Community-Centered Teaching:truth in a local dialect
Communities of purpose
What is the purpose of your curriculum?
How are the understandings we seek manifest locally and regionally?
The adventure of scholarshipreading, taking notes, interviewing, presenting
Other things will happen
What does it take to build community?
What does it take to sustain community?
Linking community and scholarship
Accountability in the Community
Exhibitions of masteryand more. . .
Communities, education, and stories are inextricably bound
Parental and community supportin the educational mission
How Does it fit into your curriculum?
What are the stories you need to tell?
