SOC345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transformative Learning, Symbiosis
6 Dec 2016
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Maclean and wason: when aboriginal and metis teachers use storytelling as an instructional practice. The teachers incorporated indigenous ways of teaching within the socially constructed context of their lessons to be more culturally responsive to each and every student. In using storytelling, they became institutional agents by providing analogies or connections to ideas that students can understand, so that learning is meaningful and transformative. Through sharing stories, the lessons carried a deeper, implicit, or multi-layered message that illustrated shared values. Storytelling created a climate that is responsive to the individual needs of the classroom while making analogies explicit to prior learning. Storytelling became reciprocal as students also shared their stories. Personal storytelling changes the classroom from having one expert opinion to many voice of experience. They centered their instruction more on the lives and activities of the students first, and secondly on making links to the content.
