Collaborative Storytelling to Support Professional Learning
by
Dr. Rosamund Stooke
Faculty of Education
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
3:00 pm
Faculty of Education Building – Room 1010
All are welcome.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP to tbeynen@uwo.ca by Monday, January 23rd
Abstract: This presentation invites dialogue about a research project carried out with a local community organization. The setting for the study was an informal, play-based learning program for young children and their caregivers located in a culturally and linguistically diverse urban neighbourhood. Drawing on an approach to documentation first developed by Margaret Carr for New Zealand’s Te Whariki early childhood curriculum, we created a set of picture-stories that illuminate aspects of children’s learning and professional practice not routinely captured by checklists and other standard assessment tools. I will present a set of stories that together tell a “larger story” about creating culturally responsive curriculum and supporting family literacy in the context of an informal, drop-in program. Reflecting on the stories, I also propose ways in which collaborative narratives can support professional learning.
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