How modern pupils tell their identity connections in the context of legends
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Abstract:
Digital storytelling where today’s students express their identity in the context of legends
The Faroese society has a long tradition for oral handed stories and myths. The traditional situated oral storytelling is a milestone in the Faroese nation building and the ground for language, culture, and folklore. The scientist and psychologist Jerome Bruner points out that: “A system of education must help those growing up in a culture find an identity within that culture. Without it, they stumble in their effort after meaning. It is only in the narrative mode that one can construct an identity and find a place in one’s culture.” (Bruner, J. 1996: 42).
The educational materials for the action research are the two legends, Kópakona (the Seal woman) and Nykur (The Nyx/Nixie); they are still well known in the corpus of Faroese traditional stories and they are still represented in different artistic expressions in the cultural environment. The teaching design will be digital storytelling, flipped and mastery learning and blended learning. The students are going to develop stories on behalf of the teaching and inspired by their own collection of stories in their immediate environment.
The research analysis will include video observations of the teaching (which includes a teacher’s trainer program as well), the student’s process and progress to their self-situated stories in the context of the collected stories and the two earlier mentioned legends. The research will look at how the students transform legends into modern expressions with multimodal skills and productions.
The research ground will be 7th and 8th grades classes (20 students) in a small public school in a peripheral environment. The students have a personal iPad as teaching tool and their digital productions will be produced with tools that work well with their pads. The educational goal is that the students are going to produce multimodal self-situated “stories” with their iPads.
The research starts in medio February 2017.
Bruner, Jerome. (1996). The Culture of Education. Harvard University Press.
Dr. K. Plunkett. (2014). The Flipped Classroom – A Teacher’s Complete Guide. JIBB Publishing (Kindle version).
Jason B. Ohler. (2013). Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity. Corwin. www.corwin.com (Kindle version).