History's a Myth: Storytelling With Youth to Explore Local History

• In Event: 61.050 - Constructivist Learning Environments and Participants' Reasoning

Abstract

This research explores how youth engage in digital spatial storytelling (Digital Spatial Story Lines – DSSLs) about local history to counter the dominant historical narrative typically learned in school as the historical truth. Two design study iterations have been analyzed to explore how storytelling was taken up as high school youth learned about local histories in their broader historical contexts as part of the DSSL design framework. The findings support an argument for storytelling as a tool and practice to develop an understanding of history as a perspective on the past as opposed the more dominant version of a monovocal history they might read in a text book (Solorzano & Yasso, 2002).

Authors

• Helen Elizabeth Lubbock, Vanderbilt University

• Andrew L. Hostetler, Vanderbilt University