Using Narrative Therapy to Promote Socio-Emotional Development: Healing Wounds of the Bilingual Self in Higher Education

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Abstract

This interpretive study used focus group and participant observation to examine the use of narrative therapy among bilingual students in a Liberal Studies class. Students engaged in writing activities that took them to reflect on their bilingual identities from a deficit to an asset perspective. Findings suggest transformational learning experiences.

Authors

• Virginia Montero Hernández, California State University - Stanislaus

• Michelle Soto-Pena

• omar garcia ponce de leon, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos

• brett ashmun, California State University - Stanislaus