Counter-storytelling as an acceptance practice responding to students' belonging needs¶

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 2 studies (1 review, 1 qualitative), q1–q2 · 0 of 2 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

Counter-storytelling is a method and methodology of constructing personal and collective narratives that center the lived expertise and resistance of marginalized groups. The article recommends it as an institutional practice that responds to and satisfies students' auto-biographical, relational, and cultural place-belongingness needs, encouraging students to draw on lived experience as a source of strength while taking a structural view of why particular experiences are marginalized in university spaces.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Stories must be shared and analyzed in relational spaces with others (counterspaces) to satisfy relational and cultural belonging needs

Constraints¶

• The practice takes a structural view of marginalization; without attention to the politics of belonging it does not address why lived experiences are marginalized

Target Learners¶

• low-income, first-generation-to-college students of color

Target Learning Goals¶

• validating students' lived experiences and building critical awareness of structural inequality

Affordances¶

• Place Belongingness Politics Of Belonging Framework

Claims¶

• Shallow multiculturalism undermines Latinx students' belonging by reinforcing intersectional invisibility [+W]
• Restorying supports Black girls' identification of and resistance to dominant narratives in computing [+W]

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Rebecca Covarrubias. (2024). On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09970-2