The Creative Debut: Privileging student voice

‘The Critical Practitioner: Writing for the Media’ is a final year unit in the recently revalidated BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Cultures. This unit comprises the curation of a digital portfolio of media writing, including a reflective essay centred on the writing process. This year (2015-16), the students published a collection titled ‘The Creative Debut’. This case study reflects on the rationale for the students’ self publishing project and on the success of adopting Freirean pedagogy to facilitate this; of privileging students’ own personal narratives so that writing can be a transformative experience. It seeks to illustrate how privileging students’ own life narratives is a vital form of critical multiculturalism.

This article is freely available at the journal website: see https://sparkjournal.arts.ac.uk/index.php/spark/article/view/16/30