Increasing Well-Being and Giving Voice Through Storycrafting to Children Who Are Refugees, Immigrants, or Asylum Seekers

Karlsson, Liisa; Lähteenmäki, Minna; Lastikka, Anna‐Leena

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19266-2_3

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“…Knowledge from stories cannot be validated with these criteria for the simple reason that fiction is inevitably at odds with traditional logic-rationalistic forms of knowledge. Therefore, I argue that Ali can only serve partial truths; they are true as evidence of the authors' personal meaning, but not of the factual occurrence of the events reported (Karlsson et al, 2019;Polkinghorne, 2007). Another group would craft a different story; another researcher would come to different conclusions from it.…”

Section: Ali and Its Truthsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…The anonymity would hide the origin of the stories and remove the authorship from its creators. This is why I turned to storycrafting (Karlsson et al, 2019;Riihel€ a, 2001), a dialogic research method of sharing experiences by telling and listening. It originates from the field of child psychology in Finland, first as a therapeutic tool and later, in the 1990s, as a part of artsbased research methodological genre responding to the marginal, invisible, and inaudible position of children in societies (James & Prout, 1990).…”

Section: Storycrafting As a Methods To Convey A Preferred Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Storycrafting refugee children’s lives. Presenting Ali and the Long Journey to Australia

Kaukko

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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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 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.

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Section: Ali and Its Truthsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Storycrafting As a Methods To Convey A Preferred Storymentioning

confidence: 99%