Making the Invisible Visible: Applying Digital Storytelling for Immersive, Transformative and Anti-Colonial Learning

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Sunderland, Naomi
Woods, Glenn
Dorsett, Pat
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2020
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This article examines the potential for digital storytelling in students' local environments to produce transformative, anti-colonial learning. Using a process of mindful, embodied and emplaced observation, social work and human services students at one Australian university were asked to create a digital story about the visibility and valuing of First Nations' peoples, culture and country in their local area. This article reports on a mixed-methods research evaluation of transformative learning outcomes from that assessment. It details the Indigenist and intercultural conceptual framework that underpinned the assessment and ...
View more >This article examines the potential for digital storytelling in students' local environments to produce transformative, anti-colonial learning. Using a process of mindful, embodied and emplaced observation, social work and human services students at one Australian university were asked to create a digital story about the visibility and valuing of First Nations' peoples, culture and country in their local area. This article reports on a mixed-methods research evaluation of transformative learning outcomes from that assessment. It details the Indigenist and intercultural conceptual framework that underpinned the assessment and research evaluation. This article provides resources, findings and insights that can assist social work educators and professionals to adapt the digital storytelling process for their own contexts.
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View more >This article examines the potential for digital storytelling in students' local environments to produce transformative, anti-colonial learning. Using a process of mindful, embodied and emplaced observation, social work and human services students at one Australian university were asked to create a digital story about the visibility and valuing of First Nations' peoples, culture and country in their local area. This article reports on a mixed-methods research evaluation of transformative learning outcomes from that assessment. It details the Indigenist and intercultural conceptual framework that underpinned the assessment and research evaluation. This article provides resources, findings and insights that can assist social work educators and professionals to adapt the digital storytelling process for their own contexts.
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Journal Title
British Journal of Social Work
Volume
50
Issue
2
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© 2020 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Making the Invisible Visible: Applying Digital Storytelling for Immersive, Transformative and Anti-Colonial Learning, British Journal of Social Work, 2020, 50 (2), pp. 483-505 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz161.
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Social work
Sociology
Psychology