Full Description
This groundbreaking book explores how digital storytelling can amplify young people's voices and foster inclusion, resilience, and social cohesion in diverse educational settings. Drawing on case studies from Canada, the UK, and Finland, it examines participatory and culturally responsive approaches to cultural heritage, community engagement, and digital learning.
Developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the book presents an innovative recovery curriculum designed to support students' psychosocial well-being. It offers insights into young people's experiences of the pandemic and online education, highlighting the importance of student agency in shaping educational practice.
The book provides practical guidance for teachers seeking to promote expression and engagement through creative and digital methods. It is an essential resource for educators, researchers, graduate students, and policymakers in education, psychology, and child development.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Youth-led Digital Storytelling: Theoretical Foundations 3. Radical Collegiality Revisited: Michael Fielding's Democratic Re imagining of Education 4. Affordances of Deep Learning in Promoting Youth Digital Storytelling 5. Youth Filmmaking as Multimodal Inquiry: Radical Collegiality and Deep Learning in a Post-Pandemic Classroom 6. Sámi Children's Experiences of Learning, Wellbeing, and Cultural Continuity: The Case of Finland 7. Reimagining Learning Through Film: A Case Study of a Scottish Primary School Filmmaking Project 8. Pandemic Schooling, Family Connections, and Cultural Learning: A Comparative Analysis of REAP Data from Canada, the UK, and Finland 9. Walking in the Path of Ancestors: Intergenerational Learning in Sámi Education 10. "We Are Doing This!": Elementary Students' Perspectives on Student-led Collaborative Filmmaking 11. The walls we build: a discussion of relational pedagogy, radical collegiality and decolonizing education 12. Beyond Learning Loss: Youth Agency, Equity, and Digital Storytelling as Educational Transformation
