Digital storytelling toolbox for diversity training in schools

  17th February 2021

Dr Abigail Gardner, Associate Professor of Music and Media, University of Gloucestershire, is the lead researcher on an award-winning Erasmus-funded project, which aimed to address issues of diversity common across the European Union through digital storytelling. ‘My Story’ (MYSTY) was a digital storytelling project involving the collection, editing and uploading of stories about ‘food, family and festival’ to the project website.

Digital stories are short ‘videos’ with photographs, images and audio. The storytelling project provided a means for teachers to share and embed innovative teaching practice to enhance awareness of cultural diversity. 

The project had eight partners from Higher Education, secondary schools and NGOs, across four countries (Austria, Hungary, Italy and the UK), with a network of teachers, media and education academics, and technicians. You can find out more about the project here.