Owning your emotions or sentimental navel-gazing: Digital storytelling with South African pre-service student educators

We are following the South African Department of Education racial categorization distinguishing between African, Coloured, Indian and White students, highly contested, but still widely used (Department of Education 1997). In South African the term ‘Coloured’ does not have the same connotations as it has in the US or in the UK. The term ‘Coloured’ in South Africa in general refers to any person of ‘mixed-race’. In and around Cape Town, where this is study is set, Coloured stands for ‘Cape Coloured’ and is used for descendants of the many slaves that were brought in from the Dutch East Indies.