Digital Storytelling in Bonnie Scotland: Conversations in Crucial Narratives

This article, grounded in our own crucially storied experiences, centers on the power of storytelling but also on communication and talking with others. The background of this writing stems from two years of Christina's teaching of digital storytelling in two consecutive summers of the years of 2022 and 2023 at the University of Dundee, Scotland in the School of Education and Social Work. Two collaborators, Christina and Andrew, who are co-authors on this article, focused their re-storying (the act of retelling a story) on crucial events or time periods in their lives. They were invited to co-author their experiences and implications for storytelling.

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