Heritage Projects & Place-Based Education
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![Student interviewer in the Montana Heritage Project](Images/ed-mhp-interview.jpg)
Krystle, a senior at Broadwater
(County) High School, in Townsend, MT, interviews
ranch wife, Mrs. Dorothy Hahn, for a Heritage Project
assignment. |
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Students and teachers participating in a Heritage Project are asked
to explore their community's place in national and world events;
its relationship to the natural and built environments; and its
cultural heritage as expressed in traditions and celebrations, literature
and arts, the local and global economy, and everyday life. The broad
goals of a Heritage project are to positively impact a particular
state or school's educational achievement by providing teachers
and students the means and motivation to become cultural researchers
and historians of their own communities.
Project students and schools conduct research at public community
gatherings and in such places as people's homes, lumber mills and
fire stations, and in libraries and archives. They acquire practical
skills in using documentary media - cameras, audio and video tape
recorders; learn how to critically analyze and interpret texts of
all kinds; and turn raw data into interpretive exhibits and scholarly
products. In this way, they discover the importance of maintaining
and preserving their research findings for use by the local community
and by the next generation of scholars.
Heritage projects like the ones that AFC helped establish several years ago in Arizona and Montana engage young people in conducting place-based research. Consult the articles and educational resources listed below to understand how and in what
ways place-based educational programs are developed and their impact on student engagement with schools
and
communities.
MONTANA
HERITAGE PROJECT
" ...dedicated to teaching young people to think clearly and deeply about the world they face... to
form research questions, gather evidence, and reflect critically upon what they find..."
![Student literary magazine (2000) produced by students at Simms High School, Simms, MT](Images/ed-storiesinplace.jpg)
Student literary magazine (2000) produced
by students at Simms
High School, Simms, MT
Learn more about the Montana
Heritage Project: http://www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php |
ARIZONA
HERITAGE PROJECT
" ...one of AHP's goals is to develop 'citizens' in the fullest sense of the word -- students who
value the history of their place, and who are engaged in shaping their community's future.
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Learn more about the
Arizona Heritage Project at
Cactus Shadows High School, Cave Creek, AZ
http://azhp.org/ |
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