3 Navigating Hegemonic Knowledge and Ideologies at School: Children’s Oral Storytelling as Acts of Agency and Positioning

2022 ◽  
pp. 46-62
Author(s):  
Pinky Makoe
Keyword(s):  
Oral Storytelling

Cognitive and Linguistic Strategies in Children with Reading Disabilities in an Oral Storytelling Test

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 406-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Levi ◽  
Lucilla Musatti ◽  
M. Letizia Piredda ◽  
Enzo Sechi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Disabilities ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Linguistic Strategies

scholarly journals Storytelling as a trigger for sharing conversations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Louise Parfitt ◽  
Emma Louise Parfitt
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Safe Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Research Analysis

This article explores whether traditional oral storytelling can be used to provide insights into the way in which young people of 12-14 years identify and understand the language of emotion and behaviour. Following the preliminary analysis, I propose that storytelling may trigger sharing conversations. My research attempts to extend the social and historical perspectives of Jack Zipes, on fairy tales, into a sociological analysis of young people’s lives today. I seek to investigate the extent that the storytelling space offers potential benefits as a safe place for young people to share emotions and experiences, and learn from one another. My research analysis involved NVivo coding of one hour storytelling and focus group sessions, held over five weeks. In total, there were six groups of four children, of mixed ethnicity, gender, ability, and socio-economic background, from three schools within Warwickshire. The results confirmed that the beneficial effects of the storytelling space include a safe area for sharing emotions and experiences, and in general for supporting young people outside formal learning settings.

scholarly journals Sadtong Panahon: Oral Storytelling Training Course for Pre-Service Teachers

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marigrace D. Carretero ◽  
Jackielyne M. Bosquillos ◽  
Jhonner D. Ricafort
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developmental Research ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

Storytelling is an art that contributes not only to students’ academic success, but also to their emotional well-being. However, not many teachers have skills in storytelling. The reason maybe that they have not been trained in the art, or they lack knowledge of it. The study identified the different reactions of the students during storytelling sessions as observed by the students themselves and the teachers. The study is both quantitative and qualitative in nature. It made use of a descriptive developmental research design. The respondents were 60 students and 60 teachers. Survey questionnaires were used to gather data. Unstructured interviews were also conducted to validate their answers. Results showed that most of the students are bored and do not engage themselves during the storytelling session. This may be attributed to poor skills in forming connections and poor communication skills of the teachers. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that teachers’ way of telling a story affects the students’ understanding and interest in the story. However, this skill is lacking in most teachers. Varied problems related to these skills are met by the teachers. The researchers recommend that teachers need to improve their communication skills to become effective storytellers and a storytelling training course should be designed and implemented to train pre-service teachers and enhance their storytelling skills.

scholarly journals From storytelling to Facebook. Content biases when retelling or sharing a story

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Acerbi
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Oral Transmission ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Transmission Chain ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Content Information

Cultural evolution researchers use transmission chain experiments to investigate which content is more likely to survive when transmitted from one individual to another. These experiments resemble oral storytelling, where individuals need to understand, memorise, and reproduce the content. However, prominent contemporary forms of cultural transmission—think an online sharing— only involve the willingness to transmit the content. Here I present two fully preregistered online experiments that explicitly investigated the differences between these two modalities of transmission. The first experiment (N=1080) examined whether negative content, information eliciting disgust, and threat-related information were better transmitted than their neutral counterpart in a traditional transmission chain set-up. The second experiment (N=1200), used the same material, but participants were asked whether they would share or not the content in two conditions: in a large anonymous social network, or with their friends, in their favourite social network. Negative content was both better transmitted in transmission chain experiments and shared more than its neutral counterpart. Threat-related information was successful in transmission chain experiments but not when sharing, and, finally, information eliciting disgust was not advantaged in either. Overall, the results present a composite picture, suggesting that the interactions between the specific content and the medium of transmission are important and, possibly, that content biases are stronger when memorisation and reproduction are involved in the transmission—like in oral transmission—than when they are not—like in online sharing.

Database Narrative, Spatial Montage, and the Cultural Transmission of Memory

2013 ◽  
pp. 150-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Aston
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an ongoing collaboration between the author and the historical anthropologist, Wendy James, to develop a multilayered associative narrative, which considers relationships between experience, event, and memory among a displaced community. The work is based on a substantial living archive of photographs, audio, cine, and video recordings collected by Wendy James in the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands from the mid-1960s to the present day. Its critical context relates to the ’sensory turn’ in anthropology and to ’beyond text’ debates within the arts and humanities regarding ways in which we can capture and represent the sensory experiences of the past.

Literacy by Way of Automatic Speech Recognition

2011 ◽  
pp. 2074-2118
Author(s):  
Russell Gluck ◽  
John Fulcher
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Automatic Speech Recognition ◽  
Markov Models ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
Time Warping ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Pattern Recognition Techniques ◽  
Dynamic Time ◽  
Over Time

The chapter commences with an overview of automatic speech recognition (ASR), which covers not only the de facto standard approach of hidden Markov models (HMMs), but also the tried-and-proven techniques of dynamic time warping and artificial neural networks (ANNs). The coverage then switches to Gluck’s (2004) draw-talk-write (DTW) process, developed over the past two decades to assist non-text literate people become gradually literate over time through telling and/or drawing their own stories. DTW has proved especially effective with “illiterate” people from strong oral, storytelling traditions. The chapter concludes by relating attempts to date in automating the DTW process using ANN-based pattern recognition techniques on an Apple Macintosh G4™ platform.

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