Each week, we ask a member of the college grad student community to share 3 picks related to one of their passions. This week, Curriculum, Instruction & Teacher Education doctoral student Oumar Moussa Djigo shares 3 resources related to a rekindled passion for oral storytelling:
I have recently rekindled my passion for oral storytelling with my daughter who yearns for a new story every night despite my limited repertoire of traditional Afrocentric narratives in Fula (my native language). Interestingly, this passion pushed me to explore how storying or ‘restorying’ could be adapted as a culturally relevant research framework towards decolonizing imported classroom practices in Sub-Saharan Africa and restoring cultural and sociolinguistic values while revisiting silenced repertoires of knowledge. Through my quest, I came across these three related resources:
- Osei-Tutu, A. A. Z. (2023). Developing African Oral Traditional Storytelling as a Framework for Studying with African Peoples. Qualitative Research, 23(6), 1497-1514. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941221082263: In this piece, Dr. Osei-Tutu, (University of Ghana), presents what she describes as the African Oral Traditional Storytelling (AOTS) Framework: “an ethical and culturally centered approach to studying with African peoples” (p. 1498).
- The Global Storybooks portal was initiated by Dr. Bonny Norton and colleagues (University of British Columbia). The portal is the repository of stories in different languages and is meant to expand the wide range of identities, cultures, traditions, and funds of knowledge in multilingual literacy classrooms.
- Book Read Aloud: In this read aloud, follow Aminata, a little country girl on her way to school, as she walks you through the culture and beautiful landscape of a southern region of Senegal.
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