Family Storytelling as Authentic Pedagogy

Teacher Candidates, Storytelling Coaches, and Diverse Student Voices

Frances Vitali, PhD

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040228289
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Family Storytelling as Authentic Pedagogy explores the use of family storytelling as a culturally responsible pedagogy for teacher candidates. Drawing on insights from a 10-year storytelling project utilizing the Chautauqua form of storytelling, it documents and describes a writing workshop process from the perspectives of teacher candidates acting in the role of storytelling and literacy coaches. It thereby showcases how Chautauqua storytelling can be used as an effective pedagogic strategy to recognize, value, and validate students' lived experiences and advocates the teaching of Language Arts as experiential and authentic learning, which draws from the multicultural and multilingual perspectives of students. Serving as a resource for both researchers and pre- and in-service educators, it will appeal to scholars and practitioners with interests in literacy education, culturally responsive pedagogy, culturally relevant pedagogy, culturally sustaining pedagogy, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, liberatory pedagogy, storytelling arts, and Language Arts.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Overview
• Introduction
• 1 Backstory
• 2 Cultural Capital of Stories
• 3 Case Story Ethnography
• 4 Case of Authentic Voices
• 5 Case Story Themes
• 6 Connection to Classroom Practice
• Appendix A: Storytelling Coach Pathfinder
• Appendix B: Letters to Family Members About the Storytelling Project
• Appendix C: Forewords to Young Author Anthologies
• Appendix D: Standard and Lesson Plan
• Appendix E: Storytelling Elements Song
• Appendix F: Assessment Tools
• Appendix G: I Am (From) Poems and Chautauqua Bookmarks
• Appendix H: Narratives
• References
• Index