BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR
INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
Storytelling research in international education and development: a resistance to, or reproduction of coloniality?

Storytelling is gaining popularity as a methodology in the field of international education and development. It is seen to offer an antidote to modernist, big-data research that positions people at the centre of interventions as homogenous and, instead, connect the field with ‘real’ versions of people. Advocates claim that it is inclusive, flattens hierarchies of power within research, is enjoyable,…