Migration Stories North West and Global Education: Perspectives from a Community Heritage Project
Alison Lloyd Williams, Corinna M Peniston-Bird and Karen Wynne
Drawing on the methodology and preliminary observations of a Heritage Lottery-funded project, we evidence how community heritage can promote global learning. The project was led by an interdisciplinary team of global education practitioners, artists and academic historians, and shaped by the interests and contributions of the adult and youth participants who have sought out stories of over a hundred individuals who have moved in or out of North West England from ancient to contemporary times. The stories led participants from the local to the global, and from the past to the present to the future, fostering a sense of solidarity that stretches not only across space and place but across time.
Read the full paper in Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review, Issue 38: Migration Stories North West and Global Education: Perspectives from a Community Heritage Project | Development Education Review