Telling Stories with Cultural Objects
Linda Edwards, Director of the Office of International Outreach shares her thought about storytelling.
I come from a family of readers, but we are also story tellers. Family get-togethers are a time to remember and from the youngest to the oldest each has a story to tell - often beginning with - "do you remember the time . . .?" Story telling is how cultures are built and how families remember those who are gone. In my family a story can be prompted by a photograph or an item given to me by one of my children or grandchildren that is now proudly displayed in the bookshelf in our family room. It seems natural to transfer this concept of story telling using cultural object in the classroom to teach literacy skills and multicultural awareness.
Listen to the podcast to hear what Dr. Patricia Wiese, professor of Teaching Learning and Culture at Texas A&M University has to say about using cultural items to promote story telling in the classroom.
Dr. Wiese also shares the article that she co-authored with Dr. Robin Groce,
A Mosaic of Stories: Celebrating Cultures Through Classroom Storytelling
1 comment:
One thing that may make it easier for people to become confortable telling stories is to realize that we do it all the time--at a restaurant with friends when talking about what happened at the grocery store yesterday or finding the runaway dog. It's absolutely natural, but when someone asks you to do it, or analyze how you do it, it's easy to freeze up. It's good to remember that everyone already know the basics of telling a story--and so tweaking your approach for the classroom isn't so daunting.
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