Making Visible He Taura Here Tangata (The binding rope that ties people together over time)

• In Event: Racial and Historical Literacy Development and Practices

Abstract

We explored storied-conversations as a way to strengthen connections among children, families and teachers in a primary school in a superdiverse city in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Eleven triads (child-family-teacher) with a facilitator shared stories about their everyday lives three times across the year. Stories were expressed in home languages in multimodal and embodied ways. The strands of stories made connections visible to the teller and the listeners, forming a binding rope that tied the individuals together.

Authors

• Janet S. Gaffney, University of Auckland

• Sophie Tauwehe Tamati, University of Auckland

• Mary M Jacobs, Auckland University of Technology

• Alison M-C Li, University of Auckland