Ryan, Elise and Joseph, Hall and Simon, Philips
(2023)
Telling Stories of Place: Community-driven Narrative and Embodied Pedagogy.
In: 2023 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum, 7 Mar 2023, William Pitt Union, University of Pittsburgh.
Abstract
A humanities-based approach to community engagement offers a model that critically examines the role that narratives of space and place play in the development of student work and sustained place-based commitments to organizations and people. Often, these narratives of space and place precede the community engagement and involve histories, cultures, and personal experiences in varying measure. Through Secret Pittsburgh, a literature course offered through Pitt’s English department, and a recent community partnership with Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, this session will demonstrate how one cultural institution’s commitment to community can undergird student experiential and place-based learning. This yields not only compelling student work born of community relationships, via the students’ essays and photography on the Secret Pittsburgh website, but also activates a pedagogical third space in which community-driven agendas, embodied learning, and institutional goals can realign and make something new.
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