How can young people’s multilingual digital storytelling foster intercultural responsibility and an ethics of care?

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Macleroy, Vicky. 2025. How can young people’s multilingual digital storytelling foster intercultural responsibility and an ethics of care? In: Eva Bauer; Nicole Haring and Roberta Maierhofer, eds. Mediating Social Challenges: Art, Storytelling, and Critical Pedagogies. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 131-153. ISBN 9783837672770 [Book Section]

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This chapter draws on a global research project, Critical Connections (2012-ongoing), to critically examine how young people use multilingual digital storytelling to develop as global ethical thinkers. I look at how digital storytelling allows young people to investigate the dilemma of sustainable futures in critical, speculative, and imaginative ways. Applying the theoretical lenses of intercultural responsibility and an ethics of care, this research moves beyond borders and adopts a decolonial critical stance towards entangled local and global partnerships. I demonstrate in this chapter how this focus on an ethics of care can be amplified in a digital story with its power to magnify what matters, paying attention to the particular and the importance of everyday experiences. I discuss the pedagogical approaches and challenges of implementing digital storytelling with young people (8-16-years-old) in different educational contexts including a secondary school in India, a residential school trip in Malaysia, and a primary school in the UK. In the research presented in this chapter, I analyse particular moments from these digital stories created around intercultural responsibility and an ethics of care and listen carefully to the voices of these young filmmakers. To conclude, I reflect on whether young digital storytellers can create a community platform where their voices are heard, and they can call for action and seek solutions.

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https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472774