Storytelling as an imperative to build morals, ethics, character, and a capacity for kindness in Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipankar Khanna
Keyword(s):  
Character Development ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Effective Medium ◽  
Emotional Learning ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Good Story

Abstract: Storytelling is touted as an extremely effective medium of communication and selling one’s viewpoint to others. There is a surfeit of resources advocating and teaching storytelling techniques and tools to help sell products and services, attract investors, build organizational brands, cultivate social correctness, build intercultural understanding, run an advertising campaign and express entrepreneurial frames. The predicament of communicating the truth in organizations is frequently between truth-speak and ‘telling a good story or ‘spinning a clever yarn’. Selling ideas, marketing products, obtaining buy-ins from investors can entail ‘stretching the truth’. Recognizing the axiology of this disturbing malaise on one hand and exploring the positive influence that emotional learning through stories can have on the moral, ethical, and character development needs of children, this paper sees an imperative to posit storytelling as a dominant, pedagogic tools to build morals, ethics, character, and capacity for kindness in children.

Sex Differences in the Development of Perceived Family Cohesion and Depressive Symptoms in Taiwanese Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tat-Ming Sze ◽  
Sieh-Hwa Lin ◽  
Pei-Jung Hsieh ◽  
I-Jung Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Growth Analysis ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Latent Curve

This study investigates the progression of family cohesion perceptions and depressive symptoms during the character development stage in adolescents. Data were used from the Taiwan Youth Project. The final sample comprised 2,690 adolescents with 1,312 girls (48.8%; M age = 13.0 yr., SD = 0.5). Latent curve growth analysis was employed to explore these developments. Seventh-grade girls reported greater family cohesion and more depressive symptoms than boys, and boys reported greater growth in family cohesion than girls. However, progression of depressive symptoms was not associated with the child's sex. Higher perceived family cohesion in Grade 7 correlated with less increase of depressive symptoms from Grades 9 to 11. The long-term positive influence of family cohesion on depressive symptoms is discussed.

scholarly journals Effects of an After-School Program Focused on Physical Activity and Social–Emotional Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 292-305
Author(s):  
Caitlin Olive ◽  
Bryan A. McCullick ◽  
Phillip Tomporowski ◽  
Karen Lux Gaudreault ◽  
Kelly Simonton
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Social Emotional Learning ◽  
Emotional Learning ◽  
After School ◽  
School Program ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
After School Program ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of a 4-week, physical activity-infused social–emotional and character development (SECD) intervention on students’ self-perceptions. Children (N=29) identified as “at risk” (The Great Schools Partnership, 2013) in Grades 2 through 5 who were enrolled in an after-school program participated in the study. A quasi-experimental design was used as children were placed into 2 groups at each after-school program (ASP) site. Data collection included student completion of the Social Emotional Learning Scale (SELS) prior to the intervention and the Social-Emotional Character Development Scale (SECD) pre- and post-intervention. A 2 x 2 repeated measures analysis of covariance (RM-ANCOVA) was used to evaluate main effects and interactions among the independent variables (group and time) on the dependent variable (SECDS). Several covariates were also accounted for when analyzing differences including grade, gender, and students’ baseline trait scores on the SELS. Although no statistical interactions were found, the trend in the data across the groups and grades does provide information for the impact and feasibility of this type of program. More research is needed including interventions with longer duration and studies with larger sample sizes.

Let Me Tell You a Good Story . . .

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (48) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas V. McGovern
Keyword(s):  
Good Story
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