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Threshold Concepts in Digital Storytelling: Naming What We Know About Storywork

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Digital Storytelling in Higher Education

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Community-engaged educators have incorporated digital storytelling into academic courses and public workshops for over two decades. Reflecting on their own praxes, Hessler and Lambert invite facilitators and researchers to deepen current discussions about digital storytelling as a transformative pedagogy and as a form of critically reflective literacy. To advance this dialogue, they suggest applying the lens of Meyer and Land’s threshold concepts, an approach used in the scholarship of teaching and learning to identify core and “troublesome” knowledge across the disciplinary spectrum. Noting that the most salient principles and practices concern the underlying “storywork” of digital storytelling, the authors offer eight assertions as potential threshold concepts. The most foundational and, they argue, the most radical is Every Story Matters.

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  1. California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, USA

    Brooke Hessler

  2. StoryCenter, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Joe Lambert

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  1. Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway

    Grete Jamissen

  2. Pilgrim Projects, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Pip Hardy

  3. Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway

    Yngve Nordkvelle

  4. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Heather Pleasants

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Hessler, B., Lambert, J. (2017). Threshold Concepts in Digital Storytelling: Naming What We Know About Storywork. In: Jamissen, G., Hardy, P., Nordkvelle, Y., Pleasants, H. (eds) Digital Storytelling in Higher Education. Digital Education and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51058-3_3

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