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Building Community through Inquiry

C3 Teachers

Community history introduces students to a range of disciplinary sources and skills, including opportunities for students to gather sources themselves (e.g., oral histories). Community history provides opportunities for students to take informed action in meaningful, tangible ways.

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OPINION: Higher ed partnerships will help the arts survive Trump’s budget cuts

The Hechinger Report

Our work together has involved workshops and community forums, and our artist residencies have culminated in published papers, a community oral history project, and student exhibitions and performances, as well as professionally produced works of theater and dance. percent of the annual gross domestic product and 4.8

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Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

Sapiens

These efforts led to groundbreaking discoveries about the behavior, ecology, and evolution of the early ancestors of todays living apes, including humans. But like many Rusingans, Siembo had few opportunities to learn about the islands important role in humanitys evolutionary understanding. RIPOs work bankrupts that narrative.

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