Digital storytelling to engage and support Toitū te Tangata | The Whole Person
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26473/ATLAANZ.2024/002Keywords:
Digital storytelling, Embedded teaching, Wellbeing, Equity, Identity, Stories, Indigenous storywork, Participatory mediaAbstract
This paper proposes the adoption of digital storytelling (DS) by Tertiary Learning Advisors (TLAs) as an effective pedagogical tool for the support of toitū te tangata | the whole person of tertiary students in Aotearoa New Zealand. It explains the DS process and discusses how it provides a means to address issues of equity for these ākonga | students, helps them to develop a sense of identity in what may be a challenging or unfamiliar environment, and provides them with a form of “digital empowerment”, all of which are essential for wellbeing in the 21st century. It closes by arguing that TLAs are well-placed to establish and sustain this valuable practice within the context of embedded teaching.
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