摘要：While digital storytelling has entered higher education as a vehicle to reflect on issues of identity and difference, there is a paucity of research framed by a critical perspective unpacking underlying power structures in the classroom. This st udy reports on an ongoing project in a South African pre‑service Teacher Education course in which final‑year students reflected in the form of digital stories on the notion of difference and how it affected their journey to becoming a teacher. Drawing o n theories of resistance, counterstorytelling and multimodality, five of these digital stories, studentsâ reflective essays and discussions in a focus group were analysed to investigate types of resistance in studentsâ narratives, their perceptions of the functions of counterstorytelling, and what multimodal analysis of these stories could tell us about the relationship of studentsâ identities, their choice of modes and their learning. Results of the study showed studentsâ intent to develop so‑cal led â counterstoriesâ , defined as stories that challenge social and racial injustice, which are usually not heard in education. Students also perceived telling of counterstories as useful to building communities among marginalised students, acting as m odel stories, providing an alternative window into the world of students of colour and a space for healing. While only one story could be defined as portraying â transformational resistanceâ , carrying the highest potential for social change, others wer e important documents of disadvantaged studentsâ fight for survival, and might well challenge some of the existing power structures in their classroom. Multimodal analysis of the stories revealed contradictory elements, highlighting the difficulty for s tudents to resist dominant discourses, but also showing the increasing (conscious or unconscious) emotional audience manipulation evidenced in production of digital stories by the more privileged students. We suggest that engaging students in multimodal analysis of their own stories could facilita
关键词：digital storytelling ; counterstories ; multimodal pedagogy ; multimodal discourse analysis ; social justice education ; higher education ; South Africa
