Lecture on Digital Storytelling Project to Be Feb. 22
February 17, 2006 - Filed under: Events | Tagged: African-American Studies, Lecture, Literature
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – As a part of The University of Alabama Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series, Dr. Heather Pleasants, UA assistant professor of educational research, will discuss “Identity Negotiations in Writing and Relationships: Digital Storytelling with African-American Adolescent Girls in an Urban Community Center” on Feb. 22 at 12:30 p.m. in 108 Manly Hall.
Pleasants will explore the digital storytelling of a group of African-American adolescent girls, focusing on how their involvement in a digital storytelling project in an urban community center provided a context for identity negotiation and assisted in the documentation of these negotiations.
Pleasants will also describe how her own identity as a writer and a facilitator developed through the span of the project, and through the help of the girls who participated as co-authors of the project’s ongoing story.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jennifer Purvis at 205/348-3315, jpurvis@bama.ua.edu.
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