Oral storytelling

On September 27, 2016, two women from Better Said Than Done, Jessica Robinson and Mary Foxworth, hosted an Oral Storytelling Workshop during the Fall for The Book Festival. Their purpose was to help their audience “hone [their] own storytelling techniques and build… confidence [in] presenting [their] own tale in front of a crowd”. Although the workshop failed to meet the goals stated in the Fall for Books summary, it was still a successful performance because Foxworth and Robinson used the feedback loop to continuously monitor the audience’s response level in order to teach and engage the audience. Setting and Context The performance occurred in the Johnson Center’s Meeting Room F. The physical context of the performance included the chairs…

Who says this is important? Storytelling is important to practitioners working with children as it supports social and emotional development while achieving cognitive potential, making mental resilience to understand oneself. Erikson (1950) suggested that our emotional wellbeing and development are important in developing our identity and how we fit into society. it also comprehends through a story character a child can imagine themselves in situations. It also comprehends Maslow’s (1943,…

Native Voices Oral tradition, used by Native Americans, is their way of passing down stories from generation to generation. The oral tradition could include speaking, dancing, singing, and many other forms of communicating. Each story was listened to with respect. Storytelling was all they had as a means of passing on their heritage, history, and culture to the next generation. Stories not only told their history, they passed on courage to deal with change. As the video emphasizes, even though…

the Ox and the Donkey, The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife, and The Story of the Merchant and the Demon (Wa-Layla 563, 564, 566). Even though this idea may seem simple, The Thousand and One Nights adds complexity to it. Jena Habegger-Conti, a professor at the University of Stavanger, comments that : The frame-tale was not meant to contain an actual number of tales, but to represent the possibility of an infinite number of tales. Thus any number of tales could be added, amended or removed to…

In Pamela Petty’s The Baby and the Bathwater: A Tale of Standards and Storytelling, she made the argument that the practice of storytelling needs to play a more integral part in today’s education system. According to Petty, the process of telling stories helps students retain knowledge and learn course material through the use of interesting tales not found in textbooks or through the use of technology. By using storytelling in different forms (music, poems, books, oral stories, etc.), educators…

unendliche Geschichte is a formless void named „Nichts,“ that encroaches the kingdom and engulf the inhabitants. The cause of this “non-presence” is people’s waning creative imagination. For a resident in this world, entering the void implies that it will become a product of delusion, manipulation and lies, lacking any genuine creativity. Bastian’s realization that he should no longer be dismissive of the connection between the fantastic and the real triggers his creative effort to restore…

every American movie. Sure, there can be multiple story arcs and subplots, but they too follow some kind of hero’s journey, or they add on to the main storyline of the film. This sort of storytelling has been implemented in worldwide audiences, and they keep coming back for more. This sort of story style can never become stagnate, because screenwriters apply this formula to any kind of film, from drama to comedy. This story style also is the easiest to follow, as the audience can follow a…

The human hand has multiple functions, along with different parts. The hand is able to use its opposable thumbs to “pick up a pencil and manipulate it [along with] tying shoelaces” (Gottschall 24). The hands “nails are for scratching and picking and prying (Gotschall 25).” To keep on the topic of evolution, the author then begins to talk about evolutionists Charles Darwin and Brian Boyd to support his argument of the role of storytelling. He talks about these evolutionists to add logos into his…

The Resurrecting Power of Stories The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a fictional story that exhibits love, loss, war, coming-of-age, innocence, and so much more. O’Brien explores all of these themes through an even bigger topic: storytelling. He also inversely picks apart the various aspects of storytelling via the smaller themes. One of the products of this analysis that I find to be most intriguing is the resurrecting power of stories. O’Brien asserts that stories have the capability…

In John Berger’s book Understanding a Photograph, he argues that there is a distinct discontinuity between an individual viewing a photo, and the actual photo. A picture solely preserves a single moment in time, and while they often act to tell a story, the medium cannot be fully interpreted without knowing the story that surrounds it. Although there is a definite connection between a photograph and the narrative that corresponds with it, the photo is only a visual aid for the story; it does not…