ERIC Number: EJ1402216
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-8398
EISSN: EISSN-1366-5898
Storycrafting Refugee Children's Lives. Presenting "Ali and the Long Journey to Australia"
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v36 n10 p2252-2265 2023
Refugee students may come to schools with fragmented educational histories and other exile-related stressors, but many also settle fast, enjoy school and live rather ordinary childhoods. These more positive stories are not told because they get overridden by well-meaning but counterproductive stories of victimhood. This article presents a storycrafting project with 13 primary school aged refugee children in Australia, with an aim to problematise this deficit-discourse. The outcome was the group's "preferred narrative", that is, a story combining fact and fiction within the dialogical process between the teller and the audiences. The story was published as a fictional book and an animated film entitled "Ali and the Long Journey [to] Australia." This article discusses this process and its outcome; how a child-led project combining fact and fiction can inform qualitative research, and how stories are welcomed by audiences which are out of reach by regular research outputs.
Descriptors: Story Telling, Refugees, Children, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Fiction, Biographies, Books, Migration
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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