United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship
Our Oral Histories
Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Cantu, Maricopa Community Colleges (Arizona)
Holly Hancock von Guilleaume, Pima Community College (Arizona)
2022-2023
Introduction:
Welcome to your role in an international mission. This mission is dedicated to expanding
educational access and championing student empowerment through "open pedagogy." In this
approach, you, as a student, are at the heart of an engaging, collaborative learning environment,
with the freedom to access your educational journey. What is this mission's ultimate goal? To
heighten social justice in our community, promoting the free exchange of knowledge and work.
Under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, this renewable
assignment paves your path to becoming an agent of change within your community. Prepare to
embark on this transformative journey.
For this work, we will integrate the disciplines of Communication and Adult Basic Education
Programs to achieve the primary goal of responding to SDG #10: Reduced Inequalities. Within
this SDG, we will focus on the specific target 10.2. This assignment also focuses on SDG #8:
Decent Work and Economic Growth.

Purpose:
The purpose of this assignment is to create an oral history based on the person you interviewed.
This will help you create a record of voices, memories, and perspectives of people in your
community.

Learning Objectives:
This assignment will help you practice the following skills:
1. Evaluate excerpts from your interview that you want to include in the oral history or social
history.
2. Create an oral history or social history in the medium you of your choice (comic strip, poem,
essay, audio, video, among others).
3. Compose a summary of the oral history you developed to accompany your artifact for the
public to access.
4. Post your artifact in a public forum.
This assignment will help you gain the following knowledge:
1. Understand that oral history is a way of gathering detailed information that helps us
understand a specific time, place, person, or event.
2. Familiarity with how individuals and communities encounter personal, social, economic,
and/or cultural factors that affect a person’s experiences, perspectives, and identity.
3. Understand the value of oral histories to document and preserve cultural ways, knowledge,
and experiences.

Instructions:
1. Select excerpts from the interview to incorporate in the oral history you develop.
2. Create an oral history using the medium of your choice (comic strip, poem, essay, audio,
video, among others).
3. Post the artifact you created on Padlet.
4. Write 1 paragraph (or about 200 words) to accompany your oral history artifact answering on
Padlet:
• What is the main point of the oral history artifact that you created, including how it relates
to the SDG Goal that inspired who you interviewed for this project?
• What did you enjoy in developing this oral history artifact?
• What advice would you give to future students developing an oral history project?
• Based on your experience, what does this mean for our humanity?
• Based on your experience, what does this mean for sustainability?

Assessment Criteria:
To assess this assignment, instructors will use a rubric focusing on the completion of all
assignment tasks, the oral history artifact, and the quality of students' writing.

Our Oral Histories is licensed by Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Cantu, Maricopa Community Colleges
(Arizona) and Holly Hancock von Guilleaume, Pima Community College (Arizona) under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)