64.073 - Exploring Lived Experiences Through Multimodal Texts and Methodologies: Narratives and Complex Representations of Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session explores how multimodal narratives allow for complex, nuanced representations of lived experiences. The papers illustrate how composing and sharing multimodal, digital media texts provide opportunities for students and teachers to explore connections between large, often abstract concepts, such as play, climate change, and mathematical concepts, and more grounded, intimate daily experiences. The participants in this international and multidisciplinary session demonstrate how the use of video, image, sound, and print together affords researchers and participants more complex representations of lived experience and culture by putting into conversation, and sometimes conflict, a range of human expression and experiences that to move beyond “discrete and disconnected facts” to narratives that are empowering and inclusive.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Media, Culture, and Learning

Chair

• Bronwyn T. Williams, University of Louisville

Papers

• Researching Children's Media-Related Play: Multimodal Narratives of Lived Experience - John Potter, University College London Institute of Education; Kate Cowan, University College London

• Math, Multimodality, and Moving Images: The Making of New Educational Chronotopes - Øystein Gilje, University of Oslo

• Making Climate Change Matter: Exploring Local-Global Experiences Through Multimodal Narratives - Bronwyn T. Williams, University of Louisville

• Valuing Learning Through Multimodal Narratives: Observation and Digital Documentation of Play in English Kindergartens - Kate Cowan, University College London; Rosie Flewitt, University College London