Chapter 38: Community Mapping Video Podcast Project: Developing Teacher Candidates’ Sociocultural Consciousness

The Community Mapping Video Podcast project immerses teacher candidates in the socio-geographic fabric of the clinical schools where K–12 students are situated in order to raise candidates’ levels of geographic consciousness and to report and analyze the sociocultural makeup of a school community in order to design curricula that are culturally responsive.

The Community Mapping Video Podcast project prepares teacher candidates in their development of sociocultural consciousness (Banks, 1996) as they explore the socio-historical geography that situates school communities. The project begins with the statement: Familiarity with the communities in which learners live helps teachers better connect with their learning communities.