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Joanna Wheeler

Joanna Wheeler

Joanna is founder and director of TransformativeStory. Her current work focuses on how storytelling can cross social divides and challenge dominant political narratives of exclusion. Over the last 18 years, she has conducted more than 80 storytelling processes around the world, combining personal and collective forms of storytelling using drawing, dance, music, drama, photography, video, audio, and sculpture. She has worked with a wide range of groups, from activists against sexual violence in Cape Town to young people from southern Africa working for gender equity.

Storytelling as a research methodology

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This podcast episode is a conversation with the team working on the Ibali Network Project. The Ibali Network is a collective of researchers from the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. The team uses storytelling to explore commonalities and differences of how inclusion and exclusion are experienced across education systems in South Africa, Nigeria and the UK, combined with a critical, ethnographic evaluation of the storytelling research process.

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Storytelling research in international education and development: a resistance to, or reproduction of coloniality?

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Storytelling is gaining popularity as a methodology in the field of international education and development. It is seen to offer an antidote to modernist, big-data research that positions people at the centre of interventions as homogenous and, instead, connect the鈥�

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