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Digital Storytelling as a Signature Pedagogy for the New Humanities

California State University Monterey Bay, USA, rina_benmayor{at}csumb.edu

This essay argues that digital storytelling is a hybrid, multimedia narrative form that enables critical and creative theorizing. As an assets-based social pedagogy, digital storytelling constructs a safe and empowering space for cross-cultural collaboration and learning. As illustration, the essay analyzes in detail one student story, using as primary evidence the story script, visual images from the digital story, and excerpts from a recorded interview with the author. It concludes that the process of digital story making and theorizing empowers and transforms students intellectually, creatively and culturally. Thus, digital storytelling can be seen as a signature pedagogy for the new Humanities in the 21st century.

Key Words: assets-based pedagogy • creative theorizing • critical theorizing • digital storytelling • empowerment • hybridity • identity • New Humanities • theorizing in the flesh • transformation

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 7, No. 2, 188-204 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1474022208088648


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