Local Voices Programme

Overview
The Local Voices Programme is a bright new initiative in the teaching of history and geography with an emphasis on children's voice/agency and citizenship-education.

Who is this programme suitable for?
It would interest principals, teachers and schools who are looking to develop in their children a sense of pride in their locality and to foster school-community links.

Learning Outcomes
Through a process of interviewing interesting people from the locality, recording/transcribing the interviews, selecting excerpts from the interviews and taking photographs the children and teachers collect a rich and colourful snapshot-in-time of the recent-history and current-geography of their locality.

The material is then formed into the school’s own publication for posterity, celebration and future educational activities.

Bio - Facilitators
Fintan McCutcheon, National Coordinator of Local Voices - Fintan is an experienced Principal, teacher and history/geography-pedagogy enthusiast.

Emer Cleary, Founder and CEO of Emu Ink Publishing - For 10 years, Emer worked in the newspaper and magazine industry from Junior Reporter to Editor. Emer founded Emu Ink Publishing in 2012, as a book publishing company but has grown the business to the extent now that it now also acts as a multi-media support agency, helping schools and clubs to fundraise and plan events.