A DESCRIPTIVE REVIEW STUDY ABOUT DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

The purpose of this study is to reveal the existing situation about digital storytelling in the educational context by examining research articles to describe current situation and develop proposals for the following studies. For these purposes, systematic descriptive review was employed. Research articles were searched in Web of Science database using "digital storytelling" as keyword and within the scope of "education & educational research" areas without year limitation. As a result of the descriptive review, 57 articles that meet the criterion stated above were identified. Later on, content analysis was done based on their key words, contexts, years, countries, research groups, and variables in the problem statement, methods and analyses. Following the content analysis, it was found out that studies as regards DST within the context of education started in 2005, the number of studies increased by years and that maximum studies were performed in USA and Australia. It was determined that the studies were mainly performed as part of language teaching and multimodal-multiliteracy learning and teacher education followed such studies. It was regarded that study groups on the whole consisted of teacher together with secondary school and university students; and that the population of study groups ranged from 1 to 995. It was specified that qualitative research method was more concentrated as against other research methods, which resulted in use of more negotiations, observations and focus group discussions as regards data gathering As a consequence, it became evident that that there is a need for empirical studies to observe the impact in the studies with respect to DST and the information related to pre-school groups as regards DST.