Culture in Story-Telling: The Case of American and Pakistani Story Pals

Sanaa Riaz
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Sanaa Riaz: Technology and Second Language Learning in Pakistani Public Schools, UC Berkeley

European Journal of Language and Literature Studies Articles, 2023, vol. 9

Abstract: In 2016, a Colorado-based American non-profit organization working on providing free education to children living in the slum areas of Sheikhupura, Pakistan initiated a PenPal program between middle-schoolers at a Carbondale community school, a charter school in a middle to upper-class income neighborhood with middle-schoolers at the Sheikhupura non-profit school for underprivileged children. Volunteering with the organizations, the author initiated a co-construct story program between each student pair at the schools as a way to examine how children engage in meaning-making through shared symbols and narrate through their created characters and scenarios the personal experiences of their cultural environments. This paper is a content analysis of the co-constructed stories to highlight themes of sense of self, cultural capital, cultural influences, and conflict resolution in children’s narratives.

Keywords: Story-telling; content analysis; cultural influences; self-identity; cultural capital. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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