Centering the Heart Through Multimodal Approaches

• In Event: Methods Matter: New Directions in Interrogating the Social Contexts of Education

Abstract

In this ethnographic and participatory research project, we examined the ways that students engaged with multimodal storytelling as resources to share their lived experiences and identities in school settings. We analyzed data from two sites to understand how multimodal storytelling can be a pedagogical tool for creating classroom cultures that recognize and validate the diverse emotions, centering the heart in the classroom. An important implication from this work is the need to expand multimodal approaches based on students’ experiences to not only better support their students’ learning, but to also engage and care for the heart in the classroom and school.

Authors

• Leah Pena Teeters, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Adriana Alvarez, University of Colorado - Denver