Educators hope to cultivate citizens who will positively impact their communities and the larger world, yet this goal can feel out of reach due to the many challenges present in education. Drawing on place-based pedagogy, Hear, Here, an oral history and storytelling project, engages students in local history and diverse perspectives through cross-disciplinary experiences. Sara Pendleton, Lisa Lenarz, and Ariel Beaujot describe how the project provides students with opportunities to connect familiar places with broader cultural, political, historical, and social contexts and consciousness. This approach offers a replicable model that forms a bridge between local and global, while also positioning students as knowledge creators actively engaged in their communities.
Pendleton et al. (Sun,) studied this question.