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Exploring Rural Contexts with Digital Storytelling

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Wake, Donna G.·2018·The Rural Educator
DOI 10.35608/ruraled.v33i3.409
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This article describes rural middle school students’ exploration of their identity and their rural contexts through the vehicle of digital storytelling. Participants included 40 7th and 40 9th grade students at two rural schools in the Southeast United States. Students worked in shared writing groups to create digital stories expressing their views on teen life in a small, rural town. The resultant stories were analyzed using comparative grounded theory yielding some themes which may be posited as unique to a rural population while other themes were typical of the developmental age regardless of geographical context. Study findings indicate that the rural nature of the participants’ communities had a significant impact on their identity formation and understanding of community. This study supports students’ use of technology to promote exploration of identity within geographic and sociological settings.

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  • Through digital storytelling, students can explore their individual, group, and community identity or other identities different than their own.

    “Through digital storytelling, students can also explore their individual, group, and community identity or other identities different than their own (Wake, 2012).”

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    The ‘Use of Technology to Explore Identity and Context’ section (page unavailable) says digital storytelling let students explore and communicate issues of identity and community; the Abstract also describes stories created in small groups. The ‘Student Identity Development’ section says adolescents may try on identities different from their lived experiences, but the paper does not establish that digital storytelling helped them explore other people’s identities. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Wake, D. G.
Affiliations
University of Central Arkansas (US)
Corresponding author
Wake, Donna G.
ORCID
Wake, Donna G.
Venue
The Rural Educator
Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS
Published
2018-11-15
Volume
33
Issue
3
ISSN
  • 0273-446X (ISSN-L)
  • 2643-9662
DOI
10.35608/ruraled.v33i3.409
OpenAlex
W2114162531
Cited by
31
References
1
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2
FWCI
5.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • The rural educator (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Digital Storytelling and Education
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education in Rural Contexts
  • Social Sciences › Education › Indigenous and Place-Based Education
Keywords
digital storytelling, rural students, junior high school students, identity construction, rural context, community understanding, shared writing, rural towns, educational technology

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