Gender, Generations, and Education: Intergenerational Digital Storytelling as Participatory Knowledge Transfer

Intervention with educators from different generations and life stages. Inspired by Chazan and Machnab's (2018) methodology of "the intergenerational feminist mic," educators from different life stages came together to share their life stories and to discuss how educational spheres (re)produce societal norms, especially with regard to gender.

Guided by feminist research premises and participatory approaches, intergenerational exchange was in the center of the intervention and was created by grouping the participants (including the researchers) in groups of three, where each of them came from a different life stage (teacher trainee, educator, retired educator).

The design of the intervention aimed at centering narratives and storytelling processes in different settings and thus, also linked the participants' personal life stories with fictional texts that they brought to the intervention and discussed within their groups of three. The engagement with texts functioned as stimuli for the digital storytelling process, where then each participant eventually functioned once as interviewer, interviewee, and photographer. Finally, the materials were cut into short digital stories, which will be presented and discussed in this talk.

This event will be delivered in a hybrid format. Attendees can join at the lab located at Concordia or by Zoom with a link provided upon booking.