Digital Storytelling on African Urbanisms: A Model to Empower Education Initiatives Across the Global South

关于非洲城市化的数字故事：增强全球南方教育计划的模式

• 批准号: AH/W005476/1
• 负责人: Stefania Merlo
• 金额: $ 7.43万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW005476%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Storytelling; African; Urbanisms; Model

This project explores how to best empower secondary school and university educators and learners in the Global South to develop digital story telling in low resource environments. This is done through the use of a case study carried out in South Africa and Botswana where learners and educators will explore cultural heritage through a digital archive called metsemegologolo, 'ancient towns' in Setswana (https://www.metsemegologolo.org.za). Metsemegolgolo, co-directed by Cambridge and based at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria and the KwaZulu Natal Museum, is an open source prototype database containing archaeological data, heritage objects, historical maps, oral histories and poetry about precolonial African urbanisms. This project develops a complementary UK-US collaboration among the metsemegologolo developers, digital heritage experts, and southern African educators with the purpose of exploring digital storytelling in low-resourced educational environments. Increasing digital representations across the Global South is part of the ongoing process of decolonizing the digital humanities globally by deepening connections to, and preservation of, cultural heritage from a non-Western perspective.

该项目探讨如何最好地授权南半球的中学和大学教育工作者和学习者在资源匮乏的环境中开发数字故事讲述。这是通过在南非和博茨瓦纳进行的案例研究来完成的，学习者和教育者将通过名为 metsemegologolo（茨瓦纳的“古镇”）的数字档案馆探索文化遗产 (https://www.metsemegologolo.org.za)。 Metsemegolgolo 由剑桥大学联合领导，总部设在威特沃特斯兰德大学、比勒陀利亚大学和夸祖鲁纳塔尔博物馆，是一个开源原型数据库，包含有关前殖民非洲城市主义的考古数据、遗产、历史地图、口述历史和诗歌。该项目在metsemegologolo开发人员、数字遗产专家和南部非洲教育工作者之间开展互补的英美合作，旨在探索资源匮乏的教育环境中的数字故事讲述。通过从非西方的角度加深与文化遗产的联系和保护，增加全球南方国家的数字代表性是全球数字人文非殖民化持续进程的一部分。