Storytelling Research Articles

The Entanglement of the Human and Place as a “Storied Matter” in the Womb: Ian McEwan’s Nutshell

Ian McEwan’s (1948- ) Nutshell (2016) has drawn the attention of academic spheres as a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet since its publication. That is why the novel has been mostly studied as a rewriting in which the existential questionings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet are attributed to a modern-day foetus. Employing a foetus as a narrator and protagonist in the novel, McEwan demonstrates the reflections of Hamlet’s existential crisis on a contemporary foetus who is oscillating between being human and nonhuman. As helpless as Hamlet for his modern-day problems, the foetus narrator talks about his consciousness, human side, morality and, most importantly, his role in this world which is devastating gradually due to various reasons such as environmental problems, climate crisis and wars. In that respect, it can be asserted that the novelist raises questions about human-nonhuman, ethics and morality through the story told by a foetus protagonist. Even though McEwan touches upon the environmental crisis through the foetus’s narration, Nutshell has never been studied from an ecocritical perspective. However, the foetus’s entanglement with the womb and the story originating from this bond are the instances of human-place entanglement. From the perspective of material ecocriticism, with the “narrative agency” given by the material environment, the foetus becomes the text that narrates his story of birth and becoming human. Accordingly, this study aims to analyse the foetus in Nutshell as a “storied matter” by emphasising the human-place entanglement in the womb.

Witnessing the Recovery: Storytelling and Family Building, from Belsen to Ireland

This article will explore three individuals (nurse Muriel Knox Doherty, pediatrician William Robert Fitzgerald Collis, and administrator Olga Eppel) who took on the role of caretakers but who were also, as James Young would call them, “eyewitness scribes”: those who aspire both “to represent the sense of discontinuity and disorientation in catastrophic events and to preserve [their] personal link to events — all in a medium that necessarily ‘orients’ the reader, creates continuity in events, and supplants his authority as witness.” While many scholars have explored the ethics, complexities, and textures of the stories of child survivors who were eyewitness scribes, comparatively little has been written about caretakers who had not been the targets of genocide but who developed an intimate connection with the youngest survivors, who felt compelled to write about these connections, and who were testifying and processing the trauma of the survivors under their care, all the while attempting to make sense of their own relationship with the Holocaust. As such, they serve a triple function of being active participants in healing, front-row spectators to survivors rebuilding their lives, and eyewitness scribes intent on telling stories of their caretaking as well as retelling the stories of the children who received their care for a broader audience.

The governance of the water-energy nexus: Co-produced narratives to take stock and address energy dependencies of the urban water cycle in Atlantic Europe

Water and energy (WE) are key resources to support human well-being and are highly interconnected. Intensifying demands of both resources and increasing resource scarcity are exacerbating their interconnectedness and calling for the adoption of an integrated approach called “WE nexus”. This paper explores the barriers and opportunities to govern the WE nexus in the Urban Water Cycle (UWC), particularly, the energy dependencies of the water supply and sanitation services in Atlantic Europe, through the assessment of four contrasting and representative regions: Canary Islands (ES), Western Andalusia (ES), Alentejo (PT) and Brittany (FR). We applied a “Quantitative Story Telling (QST)” method to assess the discourses from 49 stakeholders from across the four regions on WE nexus challenges and opportunities in the UWC, and the evidence that exists on them. The result is a pluralistic narrative incorporating the views of different stakeholders on what are the issues at stake and why, what needs to be done and how, and sustained by available data. The resulting narrative explores the formal aspects underpinning WE nexus governance in the UWC, but also informal rules linked to political economy. Our results revealed that WE nexus challenges are context-specific, however, there are important commonalities across regions and phases of the UWC value chain, suggesting that these are relevant at the Atlantic Europe scale. QST is not instrumental in directly inducing policy change or decision-making, but might be a valuable means for knowledge mobilization to question and enrich the quality of dominant discourses, and thus paving the road for action towards sustainability.

Deciphering China’s higher education outreach paradigm in Southeast Asia: can a neo-tributary perspective work?

AbstractChina’s unprecedented economic rise has fueled scholarly debates about its mentality of power strategy. Pundits have approached China’s strategic objectives through its higher education outreach, with Confucius Institute expansion and international student recruitment as two mostly discussed pathways. Whereas their efforts have been largely oriented by Western lexicon including soft power and center-periphery dichotomy. China’s emerging engagements in higher education aid projects and partnerships, particularly along the Belt and Road, are rarely noticed. Adopting the Chinese history-based neo-tributary perspective as the theoretical lens, this study (re)conceptualizes China’s paradigm for global rise through its higher education export to Southeast Asia, encompassing language training, educational development assistance, student mobility, and institution/program partnerships. Data was collected from documentation, institutional data, and semi-structured interviews with 40 informants from Sino-Cambodian higher education programs. The results suggest that universities serve as a showcase for a more pragmatic Chinese exceptionalism, in which traditional Chinese worldview has been incorporated with scientific outward-looking Western ideals. A cultural recognition-seeking tactic has been experimented through telling stories of China’s attractive contemporary cultures and values in educational practices. China has relied more on utilizing higher education as a tool for short-lived economic incentives, diplomatic alliances, and image-building activities to yield quick returns. However, concrete higher education outreach practices remain scant. Neo-tributary perspective is helpful in systematically examining China’s power projection but still confined to its simplified presuppositions of Sino-centrism. It should integrate pluralistic concepts like tianxia and knowledge diplomacy to unveil China’s interactions with the ‘Global South’ and the ‘Global North’.

The incipient transmediality: The silence of words.

The story told by Martha Cuevas is a pessimistic story, not because of the reasons given in a speech, but because of the pessimism that permeates a society that does not quite know who the villain is.Evidently it is about an organized crime boss who appears in the book, the silence of words with a beatific name that threatens and fulfills, that fulfills and persecutes, that harasses and laughs.

La transmedialidad incipiente: El silencio de las palabras.

The story told by Martha Cuevas is a pessimistic story, not because of the reasons given in a speech, but because of the pessimism that permeates a society that does not quite know who the villain is.Evidently it is about an organized crime boss who appears in the book, the silence of words with a beatific name that threatens and fulfills, that fulfills and persecutes, that harasses and laughs.

Metode Story Telling dan Role Play untuk Reduksi Stress ADHA (Story Telling and Role Play Methods for ADHA Stress Reduction)

Children with HIV/AIDS (ADHA) tend to be affected by social discrimination from the environment in which they live. The social discrimination experienced is always repeated. This is because ADHA are often ostracized, often receive negative stigma, and are often neglected. This social discrimination makes ADHA feel easily stressed. Therefore, efforts are needed to overcome the stress problems experienced by ADHA. Efforts that can be made include using the story telling method and role playing. The novelty of this research lies in the use of story telling and role play methods in an integrated manner. This research aims to determine the extent to which story telling and role playing treatment can reduce stress in HIV/AIDS children in Tulungagung Regency. The research design used is a Mix Method Explanatory Sequential Design approach, with two sequential or interactive sequential phases. The first stage carried out quantitative data collection and analysis as a priority to answer research questions. The next stage of qualitative data collection is carried out following the previous phase. The subjects of this research were children with HIV/AIDS who experienced stress and entered the concrete operational and formal operational cognitive development phase (7 to 17 years) with a sample of 15 children. The measuring tool used is the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) questionnaire with 10 question items (PSS-10) and 2x story telling therapy. The research results obtained show that t count is 6.6647 > t table 2.145 so that providing treatment to children with HIV/Aids using a combination of story telling and role play can reduce stress levels significantly.

Characteristics of Word-Finding Behaviors in Healthy Elderly Adults according to the Type of Spontaneous Speech Task

Objectives: Spontaneous speech is known to be a task that can efficiently assess communication problems in the healthy elderly adults. In this study, we aimed to investigate the differences in word-finding behaviors according to three types of spontaneous speech tasks (picture description, story telling, and topic telling) in healthy elderly adults. In addition, this study aimed to investigate the differences in word-finding behaviors by gender and age group in healthy elderly adults. Methods: One hundred sixty-seven healthy elderly adults were asked to perform three tasks: picture description, story telling, and topic telling. Word-finding behaviors were analyzed using global index and word reformulations, repetitions, empty words, time fillers, insertions, and delays. Results: First, the main effects of gender and task type were significant for the number of words, with women producing more utterances in topic telling. Second, the main effects of gender and task type were significant for global index, with males showing higher global index in topic telling. Third, men produced higher rates of word reformulations and repetitions than women in the word-finding behavior. Among the word-finding behaviors, the production rates of word reformulations, empty words, insertions, and delays were significant by task type, and the difference between age groups was significant only for empty words. Conclusion: This study is significant because it examined the differences in the rate of word-finding behaviors across types of spontaneous speech tasks and also analyzed differences across gender and age groups.

Improving Students’ Speaking Skill by Using Story Telling at Class X Of MAS Nurul Yaqin Durian Lecah Merangin

This study was a classroom action research to obtain information about the research problems. It aimed to improve the students’ speaking skills by using storytelling. The subject of this study was the class x students of MAS Nurul Yaqin. The researcher conducted this research in class with four steps: plan, action, observation and evaluation, and reflection. The data were collected from the teaching and learning process, teacher and students’ observation sheets, and students’ achievements in every cycle. Based on the result of the mean score and performance indicator in two cycles, it can be concluded that the students achieved better scores in speaking after the treatments given. It can be seen from the mean score in cycle I was 52.78, and the increase in cycle II was 16.67. Also, the percentage of students’ performance indicators in cycle II (83.33 %) was higher than in cycle 1 (47.22 %). The result shows an improvement in every cycle of the students’ speaking skills taught through the implementation of storytelling. In conclusion, storytelling improves students' skills in class x of MAS Nurul Yaqin, academic year 2023/2024. It can be suggested that the teacher use it as an alternative strategy in teaching speaking

Situating knowledges, making kin and telling stories: Geographical encounters with Donna J Haraway

Donna Haraway has been a constant presence in geographical thought and practice over the past 30 years. From her early and very influential essay on Situated Knowledges, to her more recent engagements with the Anthropocene in Staying with the Trouble, her work has become a key reference point for questioning the production of geographical knowledge. In this commentary I trace the influence of Haraway's thought on geographical scholarship, exploring how it both shapes our disciplinary histories and provides a critical lens upon them. In particular I highlight how Haraway's work informs feminist and more-than-human geographies, resonates with Indigenous ontologies and challenges geographers to reflect critically on the implications of their positionality and provinciality for academic research.

A Case Study of Pallallamma Temple of Vanapalli: Local History and Significance

Local history is an original method to see how a community works because it shows how it has changed over time and how the people there have affected it. It shows how changes in society have affected the everyday lives of regular people and how they have dealt with them. Also, learning about local history helps us understand the tradition of the community by showing us where street names, sites, and buildings came from and what they mean. Local history study helps us understand how historical stories are made by looking at how environment, economy, society, and population change affect each other. It looks at smaller, more localized situations to ask bigger questions about how society has changed. Local history is the study of both people and places. It gives us a way to see how the small world of our town interacts with the big world of the rest of the world. Local history is like a miniature version of bigger historical patterns. It helps us connect big trends with specific stories about people's lives. This journey helps us understand that history is not just something we learn in school, but something that is all around us and a part of our communities. As people learn more about their community's past, they realize that they are creating its ongoing story and adding to its historical tapestry in their unique ways. Local histories are often based on oral customs and may not have the formal support of well-known historical events, but they are still useful for learning and getting information. By bringing up shared traditions and experiences, local history can help shape policy, encourage community growth, and help people get along by bringing them together. As a place to keep different traditions and stories alive, it helps us learn more about the past. Local scholars are very important to this project because they teach and lead in their communities. Their love of history makes people think more deeply about and appreciate the past, which helps people feel more connected to their community and roots. Local histories may use modern words and ways of telling stories, but they are still based on area traditions and customs, so they can be understood by people at different levels. In closing, learning about local history gives us a deeper understanding of how our towns are woven together and how the people who live there live their daily lives. The Pallalamma Temple of Vanapalli is a great example of how important it is to keep cultural and spiritual practices alive through local icons. The goal of this case study is to shed light on the temple's historical roots, how it has changed over time, and how it continues to be important to the people of Vanapalli. The purpose of this study is to learn more about the temple's traditions, holidays, and beliefs to better understand how it has changed local life and how it still has meaning in modern times.

Performance Is Not Enough: The Story Told by a Rashomon Quartet

The usual goal of supervised learning is to find the best model, the one that optimizes a particular performance measure. However, what if the explanation provided by this model is completely different from another model and different again from another model despite all having similarly good fit statistics? Is it possible that the equally effective models put the spotlight on different relationships in the data? Inspired by Anscombe’s quartet, this article introduces a Rashomon Quartet, that is a set of four models built on a synthetic dataset which have practically identical predictive performance. However, the visual exploration reveals distinct explanations of the relations in the data. This illustrative example aims to encourage the use of methods for model visualization to compare predictive models beyond their performance.

Instilling Values through Short Stories with Special Reference to Sudha Murty’s Grandma’s Bag of Stories

Values, like charity, begin at home. Nevertheless we live in a world where digitalizing is everything, and digitalization throws itself into everything from the way we work, communicate, play and even the way we raise our kids. For the most part, it is Wi-fi that brings people in the families together. The exquisite art of coming together to listen to stories from grandmothers is quietly fading away from our absorbed life-style. Story telling is a legacy so lovingly bestowed to us down the generations. The most cherished values for a life time have been endearingly shared through stories around the world. The present paper focuses on the values and life skills imparted in Sudha Murty’s Grandma’s Bag of Stories. Murty has most amusingly enwrapped the values in attractive envelopes and presented them for the child readers.

“Real Time Story Telling”: A Performance-Art Festival in the Context of International Networks during the Transitional Period in Poland before and after 1989

“Real Time Story Telling”: A Performance-Art Festival in the Context of International Networks during the Transitional Period in Poland before and after 1989

INTERACTIVE LEARNING VIA DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN ELT AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL : SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Abstract: In 4.0 era, digitalization in ELT at elementary school can be a complex learning tool. As we know that ICT facilitated and expanded access to education. One of the media using ICT in ELT is DS (Digital Storytelling). DS (Digital Storytelling) that is a story which narrate by using the digital multimedia such as: the video and the image. This study aims to analyse interactive learning via DS (Digital Storytelling) in ELT at elementary school. To understand kinds of the research studies that related to DS (Digital Storytelling), the writer used SLR (Systematic Literature Review) The research found through Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Pubmed, and Crossref from 2020-2023. This study executed in accordance 6 research articles consists of National Journal and International Journal. The result of this study showed that qualitative method research was the most popular research design. The result of this study that has been carried out that there are advantages applying DS (Digital Story telling) in interactive learning in ELT at the elementary school such as : it can improve the speaking skill, writing skill, reading skill, and listening skill, it can improve the students’ motivate and the students’ engagement, it can increase the levels of the students’ interactions and the students’ collaboration, it can improve the students’ collaboration, the students’ creativity skills, the students’ critical thinking. The innovation is needed to help teacher improve the quality of learning in elementary school. It promotes better understanding for the content and curricula for the educators. Keywords: Digital Storytelling, Interactive Learning, ELT, Elementary School

Just a story? Leadership, lived experience and integrated care.

Integrated care is based around values of involvement and shared decision-making, but these are not often reflected within planning and implementation. Barriers include continued emphasis on professional and managerial perspectives, skills gaps on how best to engage people and communitiesand insufficient investment in involvement infrastructure. Despite such challenges, people with lived experience have still led changes in policy and services. Qualitative study involving 25participants with lived experience from 12countries. Participants shared their background stories and engaged in semistructured interviews relating to leadership identity, experience of influencingand personal learning. Transcripts were analysed through a framework approach informed by narrative principles. Participants were motivated by their own experiences and a wish to improve care for future individuals and communities. Sharing their story was often the entry point for such influencing. Participants gained skills and confidence in story telling despite a lack of support and development. Many felt comfortable being described as a leader whileothers rejected this identity and preferred a different title. No common alternative term to leader was identified. Influencing services required considerable personal cost but also led to new networks, skills developmentand satisfaction when change was achieved. Leadership within integrated care is often awarded to those with structural power related to management or clinical seniority. People with lived experience are though uniquely placed to identify what needs to change and can develop inspiring visions based around their personal stories. Claiming identity as leader can be challenging due to traditional notions of who is eligible to lead and unwillingness by professionals and managers to grant such identity. People with lived experience should be recognised as leaders of integrated care and have access to developmental opportunities and practical support to strengthen their skills, including that of storytelling. PATIENT ANDPUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: The research was instigated on the request of a community advisory board of people with lived experience who shaped its design, contributed to the analysisand informed the conclusions and implications.

A multi-dimensional analysis of corporate blogs

Abstract Using a corpus-based multi-dimensional analysis, this study investigates the linguistic features and variation of corporate blogs from four industries: Service industry, the Wholesale and Retail Trade industry, the Manufacturing industry, and Information industry. The primary goal of this study is to examine the linguistic variation in corporate blogs from different industries. The data used for the current study is a 570,745-word corpus consisting of 995 textual posts from 40 top-ranked corporate blogs. In the multi-dimensional analysis, 67 linguistic features in the corpus are tagged, counted and normalized by using a Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (MAT). We imported the output files containing relevant statistical information from the MAT and then to SPSS 25.0 for a further t-test analysis. Overall, the corporate blogs are closest to the text type of general narrative exposition. The study finds that, as a hybrid genre, corporate blogs are basically informationally dense, non-narrative, interactive, and contextually independent. There are some statistically significant differences between four sub-corpora in corporate blogs. In particular, the Wholesale & Retail Trade sub-corpus is the most distinctive one that is significantly different from others on many dimensions, characterized by giving instructions, or telling stories, rather than persuading their audiences to do something.

Handling Children with Speech Delay: Can Therapy Using the Storytelling Method Treat it?

Children's delays in speaking are influenced by two factors; genetics and environment. Environmental factors can be overcome with learning therapy using the storytelling method. The habit of telling stories provides strong stimulation to stimulate children to participate in conversations consistently. The research process was carried out by looking at the learning process of early childhood using the storytelling method. What the teacher does is fully supported by the school principal and education staff to jointly develop the habit of telling stories for children with special needs who are delayed in speaking. The research results show an increase in vocabulary and sentences in the last few months. Greetings, greetings and responsiveness have begun to appear, although the development is not consistent. Counting twice a week, speech-delayed children show interest and come up with new vocabulary which is an emphasized storytelling activity. Sometimes there is no vocabulary development in a whole week. This trend shows that other factors encourage interest in speaking - not just this method - but there is an atmosphere that makes it possible for children to become interested in talking.

Developing model‐based storytelling to share systemic insights to the public during the COVID‐19 pandemic

AbstractCommunicating dynamic insights to a wide audience constitutes a long‐standing challenge among system dynamics modelers. We propose that telling stories is a compelling way of introducing feedback insights, as well as an understanding of how our individual decisions are linked to social behaviors in our day‐to‐day living. These decisions often involve moral and ethical trade‐offs. In this article, we use examples and heuristics to illustrate how the process of building a system dynamics model can drive a storytelling project. In a complimentary manner, the process of storytelling supports and enriches a model building project by exploring new dynamic hypotheses. © 2024 The Authors. System Dynamics Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of System Dynamics Society.

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.