senior capstone project
The senior project is the culmination of a student’s time at the UW and in the major. It is an opportunity to demonstrate what you have done, what you have learned, and how you have grown. Senior projects take many forms depending on the interests of the student and the needs of the project itself.
Over the course of nine months, students identify, plan, carryout, complete, and evaluate a substantial project that they define and manage. In addition to the core work of the project itself students meet a number of required benchmarks designed to help them successfully complete the project in time for graduation. They create a 15 minute film describing and analyzing their project and present their findings at our annual Senior Project Film Festival.
Abstract
Place-based education practice in North America regularly operates from euro-western worldviews of socio-ecological relations. This practice fails to deconstruct settler colonial myths and address the tensions of living in multicultural realities. This research investigates how multi-perspective place storytelling might serve as an intervention to the current euro-western orientation of place-based education. Place stories, across timescales, that explore socio-ecological relationships from the perspective of plants, animals, more-than-human beings, and the various communities that interact with the land now called Woodland Park, Seattle, will be compiled into a storybook designed for early education classrooms. The storybook and accompanying curriculum guide will be a tool for students and educators to consider the place that they are in holistically, ethically, and through a lens other than that of the dominant culture, and serve as a potential model for similar place-specific interventions.
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project write-up
