16.019 - "We All Have Stories to Tell": Pedagogical Possibilities Toward Educational Justice Through Digital Storytelling

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, four panelists will present their research on various ways to understand, utilize, and conceptualize storytelling for educational justice. Drawing upon their experiences as teachers, scholars, activists, and media producers, they will explore how media and technology are transforming and expanding conceptions of storytelling to serve as a conduit for educational justice. The panelists will raise questions about how and what we can learn from writing, composing, and sharing stories. In particular, each panelist will draw on experiences in the classroom as practitioners, scholars, and women of color to offer insight into a set of tools and methods in promoting the dismantling of structural -isms, such as racism, sexism, and classism.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 6: Critical Media Literacies, Popular Culture and Posthumaism

Chair

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Navigating Spaces and Tensions Through Voice and Media: The Experience of First-Generation College-Going Students - Dianne Delima, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Digital Storytelling as Racial Justice: Digital Hopes for Deconstructing Whiteness in Teacher Education - Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver; Tanetha Jamay Grosland, University of South Florida

• Negotiating and Navigating Transnational Literacies and Research Through Storytelling - Alexandra Thomas, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Digital Storytelling as Method and Narrative Assemblage - Korina Jocson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst