Narrative and Storytelling as Critical Pedagogy - Roundtable Presentation
Justice Stories, Resistance Stories and Just Good Stories: narrative and storytelling as critical pedagogy
Wednesday, November 14th, 4-6pm
231 Wheeler Hall
Presenters:
Presenters:
Jane Hammons, College Writing
Jen Schradie, Berkeley Center for New Media
Regina Mason, U.C. Berkeley Office of the Registrar
Storytelling is both an individual and collective task. It can transform localized and individual experiences and emotions into public knowledge and shared history. Stories can be useful and powerful ways of clarifying connections between subjects, of bringing many voices to the table and of understanding the complexity of American society. Storytelling can reveal the concealed, the silent and the multiple voices that often lie in the background.
And stories that are just good stories reveal themselves than more than that, as justice stories or resistance stories, as stories about race, social responsibility and being an active participant in change.
By framing their own lives as stories, students are empowered to bring their own knowledge and thoughts to the larger classroom concepts and histories within the curriculum.
This roundtable of UC Berkeley scholars will address the interplay of storytelling and social justice. What does a good story sound like? Why do we tell stories, how do we tell stories? Whose stories get told? What are storytelling strategies? Why should we teach through stories? Why should we teach storytelling?