2. 2
hat is the context?
Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the
Arts is the largest college of education in Israel.
3. 3
hat is the context?
The college prepares educators from all around the
country in the spirit of humanism, social
responsibility, and environmental sustainability,
offering a wide range of undergraduate and
graduate programs in education and teaching.
4. 4
The students come to the college from all cultural
segments composing the Israeli society. Each course's
learning community might therefore be as culturally
diverse as the Israeli society itself.
hat is the context?
5. 5
The students come to the college from all cultural
segments composing the Israeli society. Each course's
learning community might therefore be as culturally
diverse as the Israeli society itself.
• Our learning community is
multicultural
• Opportunities exist for combining
multicultural encounters throughout the
learning process
• Our focus: Narrative meaning making
hat is the context?
6. 6
ow to experience narrative meaning making?
M.Ed Course on Qualitative Research Methods
8. 8
ow to experience narrative meaning making?
Bruner:
Paradigmatic meaning making
VS
Narrative meaning making
9. 9
ow to experience narrative meaning making?
Bruner:
Paradigmatic meaning making
VS
Narrative meaning making
BI Ideas…
10. 10
ow to experience narrative meaning making?
• The dialogical affordances of online tools have
changed the nature of the discourse within learning
communities (Levy & Schrire, 2014)
• With the rise of new-media, narrative competence is
brought back to life (Dobson, 2005)
• “We are in a cultural renaissance, a golden age of
music, a flourishing of video arts” (Downes, 2015)
AI -
11. 11
ow to experience narrative meaning making?
• M.Ed students are experienced teachers
• Many of them have graduated BI
• New-Media Enhanced Narratives
