Fournet talks about her work as a marine scientist and Mars speaks to his work as a storyteller. Reflect on the connections between storytelling and research.
Both of these activities are about learning from the environments in which we live.
How do Fournet and Mars explain their processes and motivations for learning and communicating their learning to an audience?
What similarities and differences do you hear in their approaches?
Please come to class ready to discuss your impressions of these two interviews.
Archibald, J. (2008). The Power of Stories to Educate the Heart. In Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit (pp. 83–100). UBC press.
Archibald, J. (2008). Storywork Pedagogy. In Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit (pp. 129–142). UBC press.
King, T. (2003). The truth about stories: A native narrative. House of Anansi.
Class discussion about required listening (~25 minutes)
How do the story telling methods of Fournet and Mars relate to the practices and principles of presearch?
How do the origin stories told by the speakers’ about how their curosities are driven relate to the different ways they learn from the environments in which they live and work?
Consider:
the following quote: “stories are rarely autochthonous; they usually begin in many places at once, with many unspoken debts” (Neimanis, 2017, 8).
the accessibility implications of “radiophonic” communication, as mentioned by Mars (revisiting the wise words of Eliza Chandler in Maloley and Jones (2018) may be helpful here)
Madeline Donald 