Storytelling Research Articles

Meningkatkan Kemampuan Menyimak Anak Usia 4-5 Tahun melalui Metode Bercerita dengan Menggunakan Media Boneka Tangan

This study aims to improve the listening ability of children aged 4-5 years through the application of storytelling methods using hand puppet media. The research method used in this study is an experimental method with pre-test and post-test designs. The subjects of the study were children aged 4-5 years in a randomly selected kindergarten. The results showed an increase in children's learning outcomes on the themes of My Environment, My Needs, animals through the method of telling stories using hand puppets. This can be known the results of the child's listening ability before using the storytelling method. Thus, the average increase in the level of success of children's listening ability results after applying the storytelling method using hand puppets.

Impossible visibilities of Black and Global Majority staff at an ethnically diverse English university

This qualitative study explores how Black and Global Majority faculty at an English university with an ethnically diverse student population perceive race and racism on campus. Informed by a theoretical framework drawing on Critical Race theory (CRT), CRT methodology and critical whiteness studies, we adopt counter-narrative story telling as a method of analysis. This research foregrounds BGM faculty’s everyday experiences of racism in their professional lives and the “normalization” of racism in this setting. Through the construction of composite counter-stories (CCS) the experiences convey how BGM staff are simultaneously “othered” and “unseen”. This complex duality of hypervisibility and invisibility reveals subtle and insidious undercurrents of racism that frame the participants’ lived realities and ways everyday racism is enacted at institutional and individual levels. Although instances of “overt” racism are rare, these counter-narratives highlight ways institutional racism is perpetuated through white supremacist social and bureaucratic norms.

Relevance of Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Children Literature In the Present Context: An Overview

Children have a unique perspective to look at the world. Their learnings and their experiences often give a new direction to the literature produced for them. They through challenges to the literary world to come up to a level where they can be comfortable and they can utilize their world of imagination to the best of effects to enjoy a literary piece meant for them. Children literature is often produced by adult with an assumption to touch the aesthetics of the target audience. In most of the cases this type of literature is meant to give a message or educative purpose. Children today are smarter than they were before. For today’s children the condition is totally different. They are exposed to various advanced systems of entertainment with a gentle touch on the screen. To get them back to reading is a tough task. In such a challenging situation we can turn to the masters of the art of story-telling. Fakir Mohan Senapati, the grand master of story telling has created a few powerful and enchanting pieces of Children literature in form of poems. Just like his timeless novels in Odia language, his children literature has a special appeal. The precious pieces can lead the literary world of the present day to approach the target audience in the best possible way. The present paper tries to study the children literature produced by Fakir Mohan in the present context.

“We don’t have a lot of trees, but by God, do we have a lot of fish”: imagining postcolonial futures for the Nunatsiavut fishing industry

Telling stories can be an empowering exercise, providing important insights into the values and priorities of the storytellers. This article shares stories told during a participatory scenario planning process among Inuit, an Indigenous People of northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, USA. This research takes place in Nunatsiavut, a land claim area in Labrador, Canada, to explore how visions provide insights into postcolonial futures for the fishing industry. Beginning in 2019, a group of fisheries stakeholders and managers came together to create a visioning process that would help them to develop consensus around priorities for the industry. Facilitated by university researchers, Inuit in the commercial fishing industry participated in an iterative data-collection process that involved interviews and a workshop. This article shares what was found during the scenario-planning process and position stories of the future within the context of Indigenous sovereignty.

An Analysis of the Students’ Speaking Ability Through Storytelling at the Eighth Grade of UPTD SMP Negeri 3 Gunungsitoli in 2021/2022

In the Syllabus for class VIII UPTD SMP Negeri 3 Gunungsitoli, the MCC, especially for class VIII, is 70, which students must achieve in order to be successful in English lessons. The aims of this research are 1) To analyze students' speaking abilities through storytelling and 2) To analyze the factors that influence students' speaking abilities through storytelling. Therefore, this research was conducted to find out the answer. Furthermore, the research informants were 15 students in class VIII-A UPTD SMP Negeri 3 Gunungsitoli. After analyzing student tests and interviews, the researchers concluded that class VIII-A students at UPTD SMP Negeri 3 Gunungsitoli had level 3+ (good level) with the highest percentage of ability (89.6%) in this field. speak through telling personal experiences. The percentage levels are followed by level 3 (36.6%), level 4 (36.6) and level 2+ (12.6). Apart from that, research findings also reveal that factors that influence students' ability to speak through personal experience of telling stories are the frequency of practice and repetition of topics, the type of speaking material and teaching and learning methods/approaches. Finally, the researcher wrote several suggestions: For English teachers, it is important to improve the way they teach English, especially in conveying speaking material to students. The frequency of practice must be increased, various topics such as storytelling, especially about personal experiences, the use of English needs to be given to students in every material studied so that they can train students' self-confidence, students' obstacles in speaking practice can be overcome one by one. As future researchers, it is hoped that they will be able to conduct better research on this research topic in the future.

Narrative research + the built environment

Narration or story telling is proposed as a process which enables researchers in interior design/architecture to deal with the crux of environmental design - experience and relationships. This approach addresses the limitations of more superficial understandings of the built environment represented by discussions of form or appearance. Narration generally occurs as written or verbal accounts, but it may also involve graphical representations, stained glass, movement, dance, or music (Barthes: 1979). How narrative inquiry is of value in the study of interior architecture, and consequently for research into the built environment is discussed in this paper with specific attention to identifying how these concepts may be applicable for research focusing on environmental interpretation and the construction of meaning.

African Knowledge Production Incubators: Approaching Indigenous and Decolonized Social Work from the Ground Up Through Stories of Our Lived Experiences

ABSTRACT Six social work academics from five universities in South Africa embarked on an African Knowledge Production Incubators project using PALAR methodology. We acknowledged the imperative to decolonise social work curricula in South African universities with the goal of centering African knowledges. This article reports on our project’s first objective viz. telling stories of our lived experiences of being an African. Our stories reflected the richness in the traditions and rituals we inherited from our ancestral and local knowledge holders and wisdom bearers. The key learnings translated into guidelines for the extended incubation and the decolonization of the social work curriculum.

Analisis Kesalahan Berbahasa Indonesia pada Kegiatan Story Telling Mahasiswa Universitas Terbuka Kefamenanu

This article discusses the analysis of Indonesian language errors in the student’s story telling activities of universitas terbuka (open and distance learning/ODL university in Kefamenanu, north sentral timor regency. The research aims to describe Indonesian language errors in story telling activities. The method applied in this research in qualitative, descriptive, describing or portraying existing phenomena naturally or artificially. Data collection techniques include recording video speeches ODL university students during the story telling activities. Meanwhile, data analysis techniques cover three stages collecting data, identifying data. The results show that Indonesian language errors produced by the students comprise errors in phonology, semantics, and morphology.

Research story telling: using the research journey map to communicate information, data, systems, and artifacts

AbstractThe Research Journey Map is introduced to guide researchers on creating engaging, meaningful and impactful presentations and publications. Built on the foundational work of the Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell, this template helps technical researchers communicate information, data, systems and artifacts that result from research so that audiences grasp and embrace the research findings.

Developing Primary School Students' Views on the Nature of Science by Storytelling

The study aimed to explore the development of third graders' nature of science views by using children's literature. The participants of the study was 18 third graders (12 F, 6 M) aged to 8-9 years old. The method of the study was a basic interpretive qualitative study and data were collected by means of open-ended questionnaires, reflective journals, and semi-structured interviews. The implementation of the study was taken for seven weeks and students enrolled in explicit -reflective nature of science activities coupled with childrens’ literature highlighting stories including nature of science. The results of the study showed that, primary students improved their NOS views mostly categırized as adequate or informed view.Our research findings revealed that, story telling could be a strong pedagogical tool in developing children’s nature of science views.

Language Games- The Great Medium to Learn English Language

Abstract: The present study aims to explore the innumerable possibilities that language games create for learning a language as a supplementary material. Language games are ideal for teaching and enhancing vocabulary of ESL learners. Take something as simple as a riddle-in case the teacher asks a riddle in a second Language class, the learners are very interested in listening to it and answering it. The riddle brings enthusiasm to an otherwise silent class. In addition to it, the learners are learning the nuances of the language like figurative language unconsciously or sub –consciously. Another mind sport is quiz that can be used to teach elements of language like grammar and vocabulary and their usage. Games can also be designed to cater to the needs of the learners and enable them to enhance their language skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing. A story telling activity can eventually lead to enhancement of listening skill. The chain story building technique can be used to hone the speaking skill. Similarly, cross word puzzles can also be used to remember a few facts from a lesson just read. An activity like a write up on a topic like my favourite offline/online game can enhance the writing skills of the learners. Thus, it can be concluded that language games can be used as a supportive method for teaching and learning English in ELT classroom.

(CON) TEXTUALISING GOND ART AND PAINTINGS FOR LIFE WRITING AND INDIAN GRAPHIC NARRATIVE: REFERENCE TO BHIMAYANA: EXPERIENCES OF UNTOUCHABILITY

The pictorial Gond style of artwork has its roots in the tribal Gond art tradition adopted for narrativising fiction Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability (2012), life writings of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. The Pradhan Gond artists Subhash Vyam and Durgabai Vyam interweave historical events with contemporary incidents using the Digna pattern of the Gond style visualising the stories with immense nuances and dynamics. The novel Bhimayana adopted Gond art to visualise and narrate the life of Ambedkar in a new way of seeing and corresponding to post-millennial trends in visual culture and comical creativity. This graphic novel Bhimayana is named after the hero for the comic version of the graphic narrative, sorrowful and miserable accounts of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. The tribal Gond art and paintings had been contextualised in this fiction for interweaving the plot by bringing back story telling, symbolism, animal imageries, colours, patterns, figurative elements, and sequence of images etc. to constitute the novel, a narrative of comic and graphic strips. This paper will emphasise how this graphic novel Bhimayana juxtaposes past, present and future spatially on the page, linearly emphasising personal and historical modes while positioning itself on the high-brow of the literary canon of life narrative and Indian comics.

Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

This cross-sectional study examined materials adaptation within an English-Chinese bilingual storytelling curriculum for first graders to identify the potential factors influencing adaptation choice. It delved into the relationship between curriculum objectives, perceptions of picture books, and the use of tense and narrative. A survey (N=352) gathered demographic data of English teachers from China, and the data was analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) structural equation modeling. Findings illuminate how teachers’ perception of picture books fully mediate the interplay between bilingual storytelling curriculum objectives and teachers’ narrative in a picture book adaptation. Analyzing the results by narrative theory, it found that the essence of storytelling and narrative is making meanings; stories play a leading role in the curriculum for first graders to develop their bilingual narrative through sharing, reading, and telling stories. Consequently, teachers’ understanding of picture books’ possibilities as teaching materials, benefits for fostering students’ bilingual development, and perception of the intertextuality of illustration and words can significantly facilitate teachers’ narrative in a picture book adaptation. This study contributes by elucidating the mediating role of picture books, emphasizing the importance of linking curriculum objectives with teaching materials adaptation in practice. Furthermore, longitudinal research is to overcome the limitations of this cross-sectional correlation analysis.

Storytelling in precarious landscapes: Insights from a photovoice project in rural Appalachia

The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in the small central Appalachian town of Rainelle, West Virginia cannot be understood separately from the broader human-environment relationships of this place. These relationships are grounded in landscapes that hold tremendous natural beauty alongside the scars of coal and timber extraction, and which now face increased risk of flooding because of the changing climate those extractive industries helped create. Too often, stories of this place lack attention to this complexity because they do not account for the perspective and knowledge of the people who live and make their livelihoods there. This paper details findings from a photovoice project in Rainelle that captured life in the small town in Fall 2020, through the lenses of nine town residents. Their photos tell a story not just of the height of the pandemic in rural America, but also of what happened when the pandemic intersected with ongoing efforts to recover from a devastating flood in 2016 and decades of socio-economic hardship before that. The results show that photovoice is an effective method by which political ecologists can facilitate the telling of stories by and with research participants, while also offering insights for how we might envision more just climate futures with people not typically part of conversations about climate change, such as those from the precarious landscapes of rural Appalachia.

(Somo/Topo) Narracje autopoietyczne: podmiot tworzący (jako ciało w sieci przedmiotów)

This article is an attempt at a narrowly-focused application of a critical approach labelled ‘a history of the history of creativity’, formulated by Magdalena Popiel in her study The World of the Artist: Modernist Aesthetics of Creativity (2017). The article highlights the domain of autopoietic narratives – stories told by artists about their own creative performance, which involves projecting one’s own somatic identity and positioning one-self in a given socio-cultural context (community) – and examines the discursive dimen-sions of the creative process in the metanarrations of Tadeusz Peiper and Józef Czecho-wicz, two major poets of the Polish interwar avant-garde. The resulting model of the creative process is then set into the context of contemporary philosophical, anthropo-logical and psychological theories of creativity.

HISTÓRIA ORAL, FIGURAÇÃO E INTERPRETAÇÃO DO SERINGUEIRO: UMA ANÁLISE DA REPRESENTÇÃO SIMBÓLICA PRESENTE NA PRAÇA DOS SERINGUEIROS, EM PORTO VELHO.

The present study aims to present an analytical sketch about the interpretative and polysemic possibility of the figure of the rubber tapper. In this sense, the general objective is to analyze how the representation of the rubber tapper is transformed into symbols and historical meanings in a square in Porto Velho. The specific objectives are guided by presenting the implicit discourses of the symbolic representation constant in the rubber tappers’ square; and describe how the statue of the rubber tapper present in the square translates the history of the rubber plantation as a spatial and temporal mark of discourse and identity; The theoretical foundation will be subsidized, mainly, by Joutard (2000) and Caldas (1997), regarding Oral History. Bakhtin (2003) about text and discourse, and Nora (1993), about symbols and Memory of places. In the area of methodology, the research was developed via bibliographical research, whose nature of the texts and literature it is possible to locate the premises that meet the scope and object of the study. As a result, it can be inferred that there are a variety of possibilities for interpreting the rubber tapper square, with regard to the representative symbols marked by the rubber tapper statue. Thus, it was concluded that what has already been written about the story told via oral history of the rubber tappers still remain as a symbol of social resistance and identity of the historical character that was created throughout the period of rubber extraction in the Amazon.

Language tells another story: when tobacco is cistemaw and the Cree are nêhiyaw

Indigenous peoples’ trade in so-called ‘contraband’ tobacco, as a spate of recent cases in Alberta has shown, causes conflict between Indigenous peoples’ culture, history and sovereignty and federal and provincial laws. And as long as tobacco is defined solely as ‘tobacco’, the illegal trade will remain a criminal matter. But if we ask how First Peoples have named the plant and how such naming connects the plant to their lives and identities, today and in the past, we can locate a new way of thinking that allows the telling of a different story, one that pushes back against the settler state’s encroachments, arrests and indictments, to enable a new view of a present-day practice situated within the continuity of centuries of custom and practice.

Engaging Students’ Literacy Participation Using Audio Visual Storytelling

The aim of this study is to engage students literacy participation using audio visual storytelling to the students of primary school in the fourth grade. Every day in the first period time of school activities, students would have literacy time whether it was reading stories, books, telling stories, and sharing experiences in front of the classroom. Day by day this kind of activities bored the students. Many students preferred to talk to each other rather than spent the literacy time properly. In this case, the researcher gave another way to engage students literacy participation by giving them audio visual storytelling in order to make all students got the benefit of literacy. The participants of this research were 27 students of fourth grade in primary school. Before the audio visual story telling was given to the students, there were 68% of the students were not participated in the literacy time. After the audio visual story telling was given, all of the students got participated (90%) in the literacy. This research was held at the third months of the odd semester. Literacy was given every day. Audio visual storytelling was given for a week. This is a descriptive research because which described systematically the existing phenomena under the study. Engaging students participation in literacy, in order to motivate them in English literacy time would improve their capability in other skills as well such as: listening, reading, vocabulary, writing, speaking and grammar. The researcher found out that audio visual storytelling is useful to engage students literacy participation in the classroom.

A STORY TELLING APPROACH FOR TEACHING ENGINEERING COURSES: A MINI-CASE METHOD

Engineering courses should connect theory and practice, promote critical thinking, and engage students. Traditional teaching methods are becoming less appealing, and new strategies such as Problem-Based Learning and Flipped Classrooms have not been widely adopted. Case studies have been tried before, but open-ended ones require a complete overhaul of teaching methods and can end up feeling like projects rather than classroom tools. The mini-case approach is introduced as an in-class teaching tool to better engage students and show them the real-world implications of what they are learning. The mini-case structure includes a story, objective statement, student ideation, synthesis of students' ideas, simplification and working model, solution, conclusion, and discussion. The story is crucial to generating interest and retaining attention. The objective statement summarizes the case study's story, goals, and constraints in a single sentence. Students ideate about how to approach the problem, and their ideas are synthesized into a model that is simplified to fit the class's constraints. The solution is either analytical or numeric, and the case study objective statement is revisited to examine whether the requirements and criteria have been met. Reflection on the process and what the results mean is encouraged. The Mini Applied Case Studies (MACS) framework was developed as a structured approach to problem-solving in engineering courses. In the context of a Dynamics class, the framework was applied to the crank-slider mechanism, a challenging topic that students often struggle to understand. The MACS method successfully engaged students and developed their problem-solving skills. Feedback indicated that students found the method effective and interactive. Further research is needed to determine the full potential of the MACS method in other academic contexts.

Power and Inequality in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights novel was written by Emily Bronte. It was published by T.C. Newby in 1947.Wuthering Heights was a famous novel from the Victorian era. The novel’s story telling method was innovative in that time. The novel is filled with love, revenge, nature, social class and passion. Super natural elements also present in this novel. The plot follows Earnshaws who lived in Wuthering Heights and Lintons who lived in Thrushcross Grange, respectively. Mr. Earnshaw had two children, Catherine and Hindly, and adopted Heathcliff as his own. Hindly illtreats the gothic protagonist Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff fell in love but the family refused to marry due to his lower caste status. The vital theme of this novel is power and inequality. The tale concludes with Heathcliff exacting his retribution on the next generation of the two families. Nelly, Heathcliff’s servant, witnessed the story silently throughout the entire novel.