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Impossible Is Nothing”

Expressing Difficult Knowledge Through Digital Storytelling

Bibliographic Data

ID15016366
AuthorsLauren Johnson (0000-0002-8800-3534, corresponding author), Maureen Kendrick (0000-0001-9993-9509)
Year2017
Volume60
Issue6
Pages667-675
Publication date2017-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1081-3004 • E-ISSN: 1936-2706
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jaal.624
OpenAlexW2549762166
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited17

The study focuses on a digital storytelling project conducted in a school district's transition program, in which adolescent refugee and immigrant English learners were invited to share aspects of their identities and social worlds through a range of modes. In this article, the authors look closely at one student's digital story through a multimodal analysis of three slides. The findings show how engaging with nonlinguistic modes provided enhanced opportunities for the student to explore and make visible complex and abstract facets of his life and identity, particularly as they relate to difficult past experiences

Aesthetics · Art · Digital Storytelling · Epistemology · Identity (music · Immigration · Linguistics · Media studies · Narrative · Nothing · Pedagogy · Refugee · Sociology · Storytelling · Transition (genetics · Digital Storytelling and Education · History · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media

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Unique citing works28
Citations per year3,5
Citation span2018 - 2026 (9)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 28

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