ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors describe a pedagogical tool they designed called Story Exchanges, which served as a communication bridge between two fifth grade classes in the United States and Syrian children who were refugees, attending a Turkish multi-age elementary classroom. The authors discuss their curricular goals and present examples of stories the students created. These examples provide a close-up lens for how interculturality and transliteracies are woven into the nature of global literacies and can nurture interconnectedness. The students’ stories also illustrate how learning about one another’s lifeworlds can serve as a valuable part of connecting global learning to the classroom. Even though global literacies may not be part of the traditional terrain for US curriculum, there are ways educators and their collaborators can incorporate these commitments into their work. Story Exchanges are one of many possibilities.
