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Storytelling with SDMA

Naseeb K. Bhangal
April 11, 2016

Overview

Why Storytelling is Important


Lee Ann Bells Storytelling Model
Storytelling in Practice
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My Story

My
Story
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My Story
There is evidence, for example, that the cultures of PWIs can be problematic for
undergraduates of color because they can convey messages of unimportance,
devaluation, and exclusion to those students (Museus, 2008, p. 569).
"Each marginalized group in society faces challenges in identity development, given
negative messages being received from society. However, identity development for
LGBTQIA people is an even greater challenge, due to the fact that most families
and society in general do not provide the role models and visible socializing
experiences to help them develop their identity and define who they are as lesbian,
gay, transgender or bisexual people (Love, Bock, Jannarone, & Richardson, 2005, p.
194).
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My Story

My
Story
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Why storytelling is important? Critical Pedagogy.

Critical
Pedagogy

Paulo
Freire,
2008
School-toPrison
Pipeline
Problem
Posed
Education

Ignatian
Pedagogy
(Foundations,
1994)

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Why storytelling is important?

Critical
Pedagogy

Entry point
into examining
power

Storytelling
(Bell, 2003; Van Djik,
1984, 1993, 1999;
Morales, 1998)

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Challenges stocks
of knowledge and
promotes counternarratives

An aesthetic
medium,
wherein
emotions can be
encountered

Lee Ann Bells Storytelling Model


COUNTER
STORIES

STOCK
STORIES
CONDITIONS FOR
STORYTELLING
COMMUNITY

RESISTANCE
STORIES
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CONCEALED
STORIES

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COUNTER
STORIES

STOCK
STORIES
CONDITIONS FOR
STORYTELLING
COMMUNITY

RESISTANCE
STORIES
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CONCEALED
STORIES

Storytelling in Practice
Learning Outcomes:
After participating in the UNIV 102 course and ABI experience, students should demonstrate:
Increased knowledge of the School-to-Prison pipeline amongst the K-12 education system in the United States
Ability to articulate how their social identities shape their role in current social justice movements
Ability to reflect upon and derive meaning from personal and shared experiences
Ability to utilize critical thinking and analysis skills in generating knowledge and learning
Interpersonal communication skills to effectively engage in group reflections and discussions
Social perspective-taking and ability to integrate multiple perspectives to deepen learning and understanding

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Storytelling in Practice
Increased knowledge of storytelling as a vehicle for examining power and oppression in institutions of learning
Exposure to Bells (2008) story types and how to use them.
Development of stories in each category for personal use.

STOCK STORIES
What are the stock stories
about education and race that
operate in U.S. society to
justify and perpetuate the
School-to-Prison pipeline?
How do we learn these
stories?
Who benefits from stock
stories and who pays?
How are these costs and
benefits obscured through
stock stories?

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CONCEALED STORIES
What are the stories about
race and racism in schools
that we dont hear?
Why dont we hear them?
How are such stories lost/left
out?
How do we recover these
stories?
What do these stories teach
us about the School-to-Prison
pipeline that the stock stories
do not?

RESISTANCE STORIES
What stories exist (historical
or contemporary) that serve
as examples of resistance?
What role does resistance
play in challenging the stock
stories about the School-toPrison Pipeline?
What can we learn about
anti-oppressive action by
looking at these stories?

COUNTER STORIES
What can we draw from
resistance stories to create
new stories about possibilities
for an education system that
values each student?
What kinds of schools based
on justice can we imagine and
then work to support?
What kinds of stories can
raise our consciousness and
support our ability to speak
out and act where instances of
oppression occur?

Storytelling in Practice
Who I Am

LUCES
LEADERSHIP
SUMMIT

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Who We Are

LUCES WOC
RETREAT

Future Story

SDMA
STAFF
Empowerment
Pipeline

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Who I Am
LUCES
LEADERSHIP
SUMMIT
Should communicate
something about you.
A story that has
impacted you.
Turning point.

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Storytelling in Practice
Who We Are

LUCES WOC
RETREAT
Utilize stories as a way
of cultivating
solidarity amongst
WOC.

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Consider keeping solidarity as a theme for future LUCES retreats as it helps


folks move beyond themselves at the retreat. LUCES 2015 PARTICIPANT

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FUTURE
STORY

SDMA
STAFF &
Leaders

Empowerment
Pipeline

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Forming a new
Team

Self and social


awareness

Establishing a
Vision

Academic
Skills
(speaking, critical
thinking, listening)

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StoryCorps mission is to preserve and share humanitys stories in order to build connections between people and
create a more just and compassionate world.
Vision: Loyola University Chicago is the school of choice for those who wish to seek new knowledge in the service
of humanity in a world-renowned urban center as members of a diverse learning community that values freedom
of inquiry, the pursuit of truth and care for others.
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Storytelling with SDMA


SDMA
Storytelling
Archive

Faculty,
Admission
& Staff
Partnerships

Ethnographic
data collection

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with SDMA
Student
Development

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Research,
archiving, and
planning skills

Speaking skills that


enable them to express
ideas clearly and
persuasively

A deepened sense of
social awareness,
exhibited by
appreciation of diversity
and respect for others

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SDMA LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students will define social identities as they relate to privilege and
oppression (e.g. race, sex, gender, socioeconomic status).
Students will articulate how privileged and oppressed social identities
intersect to influence their lived experiences.
Students will demonstrate social perspective taking by learning about one
perspective different from their own as it relates to privilege and oppression.
Students will demonstrate skills to interrupt micro-aggressions (individual
and systemic) that adversely affect marginalized communities.
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QUESTIONS?

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