Given the challenges faced by multicultural classrooms in teacher education in our country, it is surprising that
greater attention has not been paid to promoting integration and use of multimedia approach in the classrooms’
in particular in the teacher education program. Digital storytelling as a teaching and learning approach has
proven to aid creation and build communities, provide platforms for communication and reflecting on one’s past.
It is interesting to note that the students who participated in the digital storytelling approach came away with a
deeper understanding of one another’s ethnic, racial and socio-economic backgrounds. The knowledge about
other students enhanced the understanding and respect for one another in the class. The situation gave a practical
example of what and how they would handle diverse classrooms when they begin their teaching career next year.
Vaughan (2005: 30) also states that pre-service education programmes should recognize that multicultural