Episode 55: Heather Stone

In Episode 55 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Heather Stone an Associate Professor who holds the Nalley E.P./LEQSF Endowed Professorship in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has over fifteen years of experience in education and has developed curricula for K-12, college, and community projects. The curriculum is derived from the oral histories she collects with and alongside different coastal communities who are losing their land due to climate change. We discussed the following: oral history methodologies, the lived experiences of rural communities during the desegregation of K-12 public schooling system, developing a global perspective with teacher candidates, collaborative interdisciplinary projects, bringing community oral history education via virtual reality to the K-12 science classroom, her documentary film Isle of Memories, and so much more.