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Education & Learning
Documenting the New Orleans Now
This coming Thursday (December 10th 2009) in the Casino Building in City Park, New Orleans, the Neighborhood Story Project will be launching 4 new books written by students (and one recent graduate) of John McDonogh Senior High School. These books have been 2 1/2 years in the making and tell the stories of New... »
Youth learning and the arts -new research from Australia
Valuing arts and creative practices as pathways to learning – especially for young people – has more advocates in the USA than in Australia. My last post about the Neighborhood Story Project is an example of a project that has a partnership with a high school to engage young people in creative activity (in... »
The Neighborhood Story Project
If you don’t yet know about the Neighborhood Story Project (NSP) – then this blog post is for you. Based in New Orleans Lousianna, NSP is a project at the intersection of education, collaborative anthropology, community development and the making of locally relevant literature. Their own self-description is: “through writing, interviews, and photograph, neighborhood writers... »