Toward a Theory of Learning as Storytelling

• In Event: 64.089 - Sheraton Roundtable 12 - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 64.089-9 - Representing and Curating the Self: Researching Identity in Narrative, Storytelling, and the Everyday

Abstract

This theoretical autoethnographic exploration examines the ways that stories and narrative can be used to construct creative conceptual lenses. Drawing on theory and research related to literacies, narrative, storytelling, and humanizing inquiry practices, this paper establishes a multi-disciplinary approach to narrative and storytelling as a tool for research. The author traces narrative across various disciplines, focusing on multiple modes in order to explore the ways that storytelling and narrative can help researchers attend to the critical project of examining power and positioning in knowledge creation. This paper works to unpack the ways that stories travel within communities, are interpreted and reinterpreted according to sociocultural and sociohistorical understandings of the world, and act as power-laden lenses through which people interpret their experiences.

Author

• Kristina M Stamatis, University of Colorado - Boulder