Creative Storytelling Research Articles

Pedagogical tasks for collaborative digital storytelling creation: Practical design and implementation

This article demonstrates a step by step into digital stories creation in a language classroom that teachers may adapt or adopt for their classroom purposes. At the outset, it will explore the nature of digital storytelling and empirical evidence of digital storytelling implementation across levels. Additionally, the article proposes ideas on how collaborative learning can be integrated in the making of digital storytelling. The design and implementation of pedagogical task emphasize on giving more opportunities for students to engage in the genre based collaborative digital stories project and foster their critical thinking and creativity. At the end of this article, alternative assessment is promoted to assess the learning process as well as the students’ project of digital storytelling. Providing students with scaffolded activities, I contend that every language teacher now can empower their learners to become digital storytellers.

Cultural imaginaries and oral traditions as creative resources for connecting home storytelling to English learning

When teachers and learners of English face challenging circumstances such as limited access to books and teaching supplies, local practices such as oral storytelling traditions can provide creative resources for supporting language and literacy development. We describe how a cultural imaginary of stories told by Rwandan and U.S. students supported dramatic retelling through reader's theater in English camps for Rwandan upper elementary school students. The students embodied and dramatized their favorite stories written in English or Kinyarwanda and redesigned them into reader's theater scripts. Often these stories originated from creative storytelling practices by the students in their homes, thus illustrating how storytelling traditions connected funds of knowledge from home to resources for teaching and learning.

PMH26 - The Effect of Alternative Therapy Interventions On The Quality of Life of Dementia Patients: Meta-Analyses

Since there is no cure for dementia, patients often seek complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies to slow down disease progression. While the quality of life (QoL) is an important outcome dimension for dementia, the QoL outcomes of CAM for dementia have not been clear. This study aimed to determine the effect of CAM therapies for the dementia patients in terms of QoL outcomes by conducting systematic review and meta-analyses. A systematic review search in PubMed, CENTRAL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, NCSL, KISS, KMbase, NDSL, RISS and OASIS was performed by June 2017. Search keywords were the following: ‘dementia’, ‘alzheimer’, ‘cognitive impairment’, ‘Chinese’, ‘Korean’, ‘oriental’, ‘herbal’, ‘acupuncture’ and ‘quality of life’. Literature were selected separately by two independent researchers, and the quality of literatures was evaluated using RoB and RoBAN. All quantitative data were synthesized using the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA) software, version 3.0 For the systematic review, 29 articles (14 RCTs, 13 pre-post trials, and 2 cohort studies) with QoL measures were included. Dementia specific QoL instruments like GQOL-D (n=7) and QOL-AD (n=6) and general instruments of WHOQOL-BREF (n=4) and SF-36 (n=4) were generally reported. In meta-analyses, a combination of two acupuncture intervention researches (electro-acupuncture RCT and pre-post trial), it was found that acupuncture significantly increased standard mean difference (SMD) by 0.384 only at mental component of SF-36. Also various CAM interventions such as multiple training modalities, forest healing and creative story telling were significant in psychological (SMD 0.537, p=.007) and social relationships domain (SMD 0.519, p=.004) of WHOQOL-BREF. This study found that CAM interventions improved QoLs of dementia patients. Therefore, CAM therapies can be considered part of the clinical management of dementia and utilized to assist with pharmacological treatment. Furthermore, if the coverage of health insurance is extended to CAM treatment, the QoL of patients with dementia will be greatly improved.

Investigating the effect of creative storytelling on enhanced creativity of preschool students in Iran

ABSTRACTThe current study examined the efficacy of creative storytelling on enhancing the creativity of preschool students. Using a randomized waitlist control design, 34 students were randomly allocated to a training or waitlist condition and completed pre- and post-training assessments of either of four tools: two images for story-building, one image for drawing, and a verbal question. Students in the intervention group were observed to participate actively in storytelling sessions, with further interest in stories at latter sessions. Creativity enhancement was seen to be independent of gender. Boy and girl students in the intervention group indicating a significant relationship between creative storytelling and enhancement of creative thinking. To be noted by psychologists, libertarians, and school and library managers, the results may emphasize the value of storytelling and bibliotherapy for students.

T-books: A block interface for young children’s narrative construction

Abstract This article presents a body of work developed to focus on the development of innovative learning materials that promote young children’s exploration and collaborative playful learning that have been deeply inspired by Seymour Papert. Through this contribution, we highlight how his research and published concepts have had a fundamental influence upon the development of t-books, a digital manipulative that aims at promoting scaffolded, collaborative and creative storytelling.

LANGUAGE FORMALISM ANALYSIS OF BIJAN NAJDI'S STORIES

Formalists examine literary work apart from the author's personality, morale and beliefs, and merely a linguistic issue. For them, a literary work is a mere form. The world of literature is completely different from the real world and one should not expect to acquire knowledge from a literary work. Bijan Najdi is a storyteller interested in obscuring the story space in his stories. Using a variety of linguistic possibilities of inside the mygans skillfully, he developed a kind of creative storytelling based on the principles of formalism that removed his stories from context of incident. The attempt to highlight the form of the story (deviating from norms, adding rules) and apply new narrative techniques, pay attention to the rhetorical aspect of speech, create a vague language and based on poetic tone and making spaces, has replaced it with strange themes; Thus, he has fulfilled the intended eliminating acquaintance of formalism. In this research, by a descriptive-analytical method aiming at studying the fictional language of Bijan Najdi based on formalism viewpoint, we have tried to examine eliminating acquaintance and manifestations and evidences, highlighting, meta-fiction, poetic language, logopathy,…, that is one of the most decisive factors of being mysterious and peculiar of Bijan Najdi's stories world. As a result, using modern language techniques and arrangements, Najdi prevented emergence of a dominant element and repetition of values leading to the novelty of the language and a new understanding of using literary language and the aesthetic preservation of his stories. In fact, he makes a new concept of applying language in the mind of the audience by deviating from the standard language based on the principles of formalism. Article visualizations:

창조적 스토리텔링의 방안모색 ─ 『문신(刺青)』을 중심으로 ─

창조적 스토리텔링의 방안모색 ─ 『문신(刺青)』을 중심으로 ─

Creative storytelling: Focusing on the novel “Tattoo”

Creative storytelling: Focusing on the novel “Tattoo”

Creative Storytelling: Building Community, Changing Lives

Creative Storytelling: Building Community, Changing Lives

Spirits Of Tsureshima: Creative Storytelling with Islanders

Spirits Of Tsureshima: Creative Storytelling with Islanders

In the thick of it

Give creative story telling some oomph by gathering children in a group, and encouraging them to build stories around specially chosen props. Watch for increased confidence in their self-expression.

Heritage Communities, Participation and Co‐creation of Cultural Values: The #iziTRAVELSicilia Project

The aim of this article is to present a large‐scale regional project conducted in Sicily, #iziicilia, which consists of an online platform and app. My point of departure is an overview of the literature on the use of digital storytelling and Information and Communication Technologies for heritage promotion. I will then delve into the project itself, whose primary purpose was to use digital communication in order to enhance Sicilian cultural heritage, by involving more than 3,000 native Sicilians, forming ‘heritage communities’, and by developing more than 180 audio guides. I will argue that this project is a good example of participation in the co‐creation of cultural values through the digital promotion and valorisation of heritage and territories, as articulated in the Faro Convention. The participatory co‐creation of cultural content provides greater visibility of Sicilian cultural heritage, demonstrating the cultural values of the #iziicilia project itself. Finally, I will delineate izi.'s role in encouraging people to promote their heritage through emotional and creative storytelling.

Activity groups for persons with dementia: Personal predictors of participation, engagement and mood

This study examined the relationship between personal characteristics and attendance, engagement, sleep, and mood outcomes of persons with dementia participating in group activities. The purpose of this study is to examine which persons with dementia benefit most from group interventions. Sixty-nine persons with dementia were observed by research and therapeutic recreation staff during 10 types of group activities (reading aloud with discussion, choral-singing, baking, creative storytelling, brain games, active games, exercise, reminiscence poetry, holiday newsletter, and holiday discussions) on multiple outcomes (attendance duration, sleep, engagement, active participation, attitude, and positive mood). Correlations between these outcomes and personal characteristics (demographics, functional and medical characteristics, personal preferences for group activities) were conducted. Variables with significant correlations were then entered into regression analyses. Many of the personal characteristics were significantly correlated with the outcomes. Cognitive function was the most consistent predictor of all outcomes. Personal characteristics, particularly cognitive function, can predict the responses of persons with dementia during group activities.

Humanizing the Deities of Jazz

As musicians, we have been taught to idolize certain figures in music history. These individuals are considered untouchable, unassailable, and unquestionably brilliant. This practice is increasingly evident in jazz. Figures like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis have all undergone a virtual apotheosis. While there is no question of their importance, the idolization of these people makes attaining what they have done difficult to grasp. We have dug a chasm between aspiring musicians and the music itself. This gap is wide in that we regard these figures and their music so glowingly that relating to them becomes difficult. Students must understand that these figures were ordinary people. Through technology and creative storytelling, students can explore the world in which these musicians lived. Providing context can help students gain a better understanding of how jazz music has evolved and why. Students can then use this knowledge to develop confidence in their creative process and in how it relates to their unique life context.

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This article presents a body of work developed to focus on the development of innovative learning materials that promote young children’s exploration and collaborative playful learning that have been deeply inspired by Seymour Papert. Through this contribution, we highlight how his research and published concepts have had a fundamental influence upon the development of t-books, a digital manipulative that aims at promoting scaffolded, collaborative and creative storytelling.

미장아빔으로 배치된 영화 속 의상코드 분석 -Lucien Dällenbach의 이론과 영화 <Midnight in Paris>를 중심으로-

This study focuses on the Mise-en-abyme theories of Lucien <TEX>$D{\ddot{a}}llenbach$</TEX>, and presents research methodology to analyze the modern cinema costume in a new view. Inherent aesthetic values of the costume code shown in the film are as follows. First, esthetics value shown is the analogic code through the maximization of factual realism by directing target. Mise-en-abyme placed in this film <Midnight in Paris> plays the role of costume codes, and highlights the subject by presenting specifically targeted realistic icons to maximize the realism of the movie. Second, Mise-en-abyme is deployed to the explicit text through costumes code is placed as Displaced code arrangements. In other words, each of the characters is a signifier. Symbolizing a historical era is the device that represents a self-reflective signifier. Third, paradoxically reflected by the overlapped expansion of virtual reality and the self-referential characteristics and are subject to reflect the thinking of the author. Costumes code placed in Mise-en-abyme is expressed in costumes positioned to maximize the realism in the film as described above, and implies narratives and self-reflective mediating tools that symbolism can be seen that the paradoxical metaphor for the reality and the future. In addition, through the metaphor of visual narrative is allegorical representation Mise-en-abyme with ambiguity, and it is a concrete text that can be realized in a variety of creative storytelling methods and image delivery methods of modern fashion. This study confirmed that this costumes to take the point of view of emotional <TEX>$Mise-en-sc{\grave{e}}ne$</TEX> in the process of completing the film's themes and cinematic devices by identifying the roles and aesthetic value of code costumes as the core subjects that make up the narrative of the film.

A Tale of Two Sisters

A Tale of Two Sisters represents an attempt to portray different approaches to organizational situations through creative story telling. A small but growing number of writers in the field of public administration have used creative writing to capture the interest of bureaucrats. Stories are powerful in that they can fire the imagination of the reader and provide an experience that is both enjoyable and meaningful. Acceptance of story teling and creative writing in public administration allows for new and different talent to participate in defining what it means to be a public administrator. Creative writing is also an excellent vehicle for connecting the teachings of different disciplines and belief systems in a metaphorical way. The ideals of servant leadership and the teachings of Buddhism comed together in the following story as we witness a meeting between twin sisters.

Human Rights in Play, Transnational Solidarity at Work: Creative Playfulness and Subversive Storytelling among the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) employs creative playfulness and subversive storytelling in their human rights campaigns and solidarity-building practices. The article focuses on three particular media to illustrate how they construct transnational solidarity: (1) son jarocho music as a medium for organizing the March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food targeting Publix Supermarkets for human rights abuses like wage theft; (2) mística theater as a medium for organizing the Encuentro gathering to build their campaign against Wendy’s for failing to free their supply chain from worker abuse; and (3) a grassroots community museum as a medium for building support against slavery. Creative playfulness and subversive storytelling contribute to successes built on human rights principles and realized through corporate accountability strategies. The article describes these media, and shows how they overcome challenges of building transnational solidarity. Finally, it suggests how the CIW has influenced recent farmworker strikes in Mexico.

Immigrant Activism: Narratives of the “H-4 Life” by Indian Women on YouTube

H-4 immigrants, when mentioned in news about high-skilled immigration, often have to reckon with the problematic institutional description of their status as “dependents.” Using online media to produce and circulate new texts for understanding what it means to be an H-4 immigrant is an act of documentation for and by those who are culturally and politically undocumented in mainstream U.S. culture. This article considers 2 YouTube videos by Indian women on the H-4 “dependent” visa and argues that these online media texts represent what L. Lowe (1996) has called “immigrant acts” (pp. 8–9). The YouTube videos not only represent and make visible the H-4 subject but, importantly, do so while foregrounding creative storytelling and personal narratives of the H-4 experience.

Improvement in Computer Literacy through Creating Digital Storytelling

Creation of storytelling using PowerPoint was conducted so as to raise computer literacy and to foster the students' self-understanding. They were required to draw a figure using Excel and stick it on a report. They were expected to write their reports using Word. The pre and post literacy in functions of the software of three kinds was investigated to know the computer literacy which was able to be developed by creating the storytelling. As a result, the pre literacy in functions of PowerPoint was lower than those of Word and Excel. After this practice, the post literacy in the functions of PowerPoint significantly became higher. This paper will report that students became able to utilize the functions of PowerPoint as same as those of Word and Excel. Principal component analysis will be conducted for elongation in the literacy of PowerPoint. Cluster analysis will be conducted using the principal component score as a variable. As the results, students will be divided into four groups: the group whose elongation in the general literacy of PowerPoint is higher, the group whose elongation in literacy related to an animation is higher, the group whose elongation in the overall literacy of PowerPoint is third, and the group whose elongation in the skill of PowerPoint and Excel is lowest.