ABSTRACT
This chapter commences with a discussion on first specific context for listening to digital stories: professional health education. It briefly examines why student-generated digital stories are a popular use of digital storytelling in higher education and the ideas that underpin this approach. The chapter turns to a perhaps less commonly considered use of digital storytelling: that is, getting students and professionals to listen to health service users' stories. The case study material for this chapter focuses on dementia care education. The chapter then outlines the ways that "classic" digital storytelling has been used for dementia care education in two projects: Rosie Stenhouse and Patient Voices' Dangling Conversations project and the Visual Stories collection. The primary aim is to unpack and theorise some of the strategies that trainers and teachers have used to get learners to listen to others' stories, and to reflect on some of the practical and ethical challenges of using these materials as teaching tools.
