Article
Digital Storytelling as a Signature Pedagogy for the New Humanities
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
(2008)
Abstract
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.
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 1, 2008
DOI
10.1177/1474022208088648
Citation Information
Rina Benmayor. "Digital Storytelling as a Signature Pedagogy for the New Humanities" Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Vol. 7 Iss. 2 (2008) p. 188 - 204 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rina-benmayor/17/