What is it about?
Narrative inquiry and digital storytelling can play a critical role in creating educational spaces for peer support, connection, and encouragement. Storytelling offers opportunities for students to recreate the narratives by which they live. Group storytelling enables participants to interrogate and address prior trauma, support each other, and re-author stigmatizing conversations.
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Why is it important?
The diverse modalities employed in digital storytelling offer simultaneous access to multiple levels of cognitive processing (informational, emotional, or cultural). Collective spaces for narrative practice help participants enrich their personal stories by acknowledging and integrating multiple perspectives. By sharing stories and empowering narratives, we can establish a more democratic classroom culture; a transformative community practice that promotes the development of autonomous human beings.
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This paper makes a significant contribution by proposing a concise model for educational or/and community interventions that combines digital storytelling, narrative inquiry, and facilitated peer-to-peer work to create a space for collective empowerment. For participants to question implicit personal or social narratives, they need to be engaged in a collective inquiry led by facilitators who adopt an evocative, appreciative, and performative pedagogy.
Alexios Brailas
Hellenic Open University
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This page is a summary of: Digital storytelling and the narrative turn in psychology: Creating spaces for collective empowerment, April 2021, Center for Open Science,
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vx2up.
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