Storytelling Strategies Research Articles

Thinking outside the box: Senior scientists’ metacognitive strategy knowledge and self-regulation of writing for science communication

Academics are increasingly engaged in writing genres with purposes and for readers outside of academia—a variety of science-based communication practices that fall under the term science communication. These practices often span different modes, genres, and even languages, requiring high degrees of rhetorical flexibility, strategic knowledge, and regulation of writing. In this study, we probe the self-regulation and specifically the metacognitive strategy knowledge (MSK) of seven senior scientists who regularly and actively engage with writing for science communication. We argue that understanding their MSK can illuminate how strategic knowledge is transferred across written genres, and importantly offer useful insights for the training of future scientists. Using data derived from in-depth, narrative interviews with a recall component, we identify a variety of strategies for task conceptualization/analysis, planning and goal setting, monitoring, and evaluating the writing of different genres. Task analysis appears particularly crucial in science communication writing, due to the great variety of purposes and readers that fall under this umbrella. Interestingly, our participants underscore storytelling strategies, and seem to transfer language and style monitoring strategies to and from science communication and publication. We map the strategies identified and discuss the implications of our study for further research and science communication pedagogy.

Value acquisition of school pupils’ after a Christian Religious Studies based intervention (teacher-led digital story telling strategy) in Lagos State, Nigeria

The basis for the inclusion of Christian Religious Studies (CRS) into the primary school curriculum in Nigeria was particular to the learning of morals and the development of societally acceptable values and attitudes. Presently, Nigeria is experiencing a high level of social vices, immoralities and an unprecedented amount of anti-social behaviours among youths. Of course, the considerable amount of problems generated by the increasing immoralities among primary school pupils of Lagos State was attributed to effectiveness in the teaching methodologies used for teaching and learning of CRS. Contemporarily, the use of computer-based technologies and digital tools for classroom teaching and learning proved to be effective because it engages primary school pupils. This study focused on the use of digital storytelling in the teaching and learning of CRS in Lagos State primary schools. The research was carried out to study the attitudes of primary school pupils toward CRS after the use of the “Teacher-Led Digital Storytelling Strategy” (TLDSS). Data obtained from the intervention revealed that primary school pupils exposed to TLDSS had the highest adjusted post-value acquisition mean score in CRS of 53.86. Again, there were observations from the study that primary school pupils exposed to TLDSS were significantly different from those exposed to conventional strategies (CS) in the teaching and learning of CRS in terms of value acquisition. The findings showed the effectiveness of the use of TLDSS for primary school pupils of Lagos State because TLDSS enhances primary school pupils’ acquisition of values, achievement and development of positive attitude to CRS.

Value acquisition of school pupils’ after a Christian Religious Studies based intervention (teacher-led digital story telling strategy) in Lagos State, Nigeria

The basis for the inclusion of Christian Religious Studies (CRS) into the primary school curriculum in Nigeria was particular to the learning of morals and the development of societally acceptable values and attitudes. Presently, Nigeria is experiencing a high level of social vices, immoralities and an unprecedented amount of anti-social behaviours among youths. Of course, the considerable amount of problems generated by the increasing immoralities among primary school pupils of Lagos State was attributed to effectiveness in the teaching methodologies used for teaching and learning of CRS. Contemporarily, the use of computer-based technologies and digital tools for classroom teaching and learning proved to be effective because it engages primary school pupils. This study focused on the use of digital storytelling in the teaching and learning of CRS in Lagos State primary schools. The research was carried out to study the attitudes of primary school pupils toward CRS after the use of the “Teacher-Led Digital Storytelling Strategy” (TLDSS). Data obtained from the intervention revealed that primary school pupils exposed to TLDSS had the highest adjusted post-value acquisition mean score in CRS of 53.86. Again, there were observations from the study that primary school pupils exposed to TLDSS were significantly different from those exposed to conventional strategies (CS) in the teaching and learning of CRS in terms of value acquisition. The findings showed the effectiveness of the use of TLDSS for primary school pupils of Lagos State because TLDSS enhances primary school pupils’ acquisition of values, achievement and development of positive attitude to CRS.

ДВОСТРУКА ФИКЦИОНАЛНОСТ МОГУЋИХ СВЕТОВА У ПРИПОВЕЦИ СВИРАЧ ИЗ ЗЛАТНИХ ВРЕМЕНА

In this paper we tried to illustrate some of the basic postulates of the theory of possible worlds by Lubomir Doležel on the example of Borislav Pekić’s story The Fiddler from the Golden Time. We tried to show how storytelling strategies contribute to the constitution of a complex fictional world. We examined the basic methods of creating a possible world and situated that methods within the framework of Doležel’s theoretical explication. In the constellation of characters in this story, the hero who belongs to the alternative world is in a position of power. Double fictionality operates on the plane of the fictional world constituted by storytelling and the unrealized possibilities of the past. Autobiographical elements are transformed into facts of the fictional world, and by influencing the alternative into the fictionally existing, the author seeks to interpret the conformist position in a restrictive ideological matrix in a critical way. The demystification of ideology in the narrative about the poet and his counterpart moves to a metaphysical plane identified with the domain of the story.

Policy entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial strategies, and institutional contexts in Interreg Europe

Abstract In their efforts to affect policy change, policy entrepreneurs employ a series of strategies, which have been well documented in the literature. However, little is known regarding the relationship between the types of strategies policy entrepreneurs use and the institutional contexts in which they operate. The Interreg Europe programme aims to promote policy changes and thus offers a space for policy learning and experimentation to policy entrepreneurs. Using a mixed methodology that includes a survey addressed to the sixty-five Interreg Europe projects in research and innovation during the programming period 2014–20 and twelve follow-up semi-structured interviews, this article explores the strategies used by policy entrepreneurs in different institutional contexts. The study, rare in the policy entrepreneurship scholarship with its quantitative aspects, highlights the most widely-used strategies by policy entrepreneurs in research and innovation policy changes. Findings suggest that the strategy of storytelling is more widely used in high-innovator regions than in low-innovator regions and in Northern European regions compared to Southern European regions. Moreover, policy entrepreneurs who employ the storytelling strategy find it easier to introduce a policy change.

STRATEGI DIGITAL STORYTELLING PADA ORGANISASI CROWDFUNDING DI MEDIA SOSIAL INSTAGRAM @LAZISNUBANYUWANGI

This study aims to identify and explain a digital storytelling strategy by LAZISNU Banyuwangi as a crowdfunding organization. The results of this study show that LAZISNU Banyuwangi uses a digital storytelling strategy to carry out crowdfunding activities by creating narratives that can persuade the audience to build an emotional side and evoke compassion in the audience so they want to help by donating. The narrative strategy used by LAZISNU Banyuwangi has guidelines that are in accordance with Clandinin & Polkinghorne which consist of settings, characters, and plots.

Effect of Story Telling Strategy in Developing Oral Expression Skills for First Grade Student in Sahab.

استهدفت الدراسة الكشف عن أثر استخدام إستراتيجية السرد القصصي في تنمية مهارات التعبير الشفوي لدى طالبات الصف الأول في سحاب؛ حيث استخدم الباحثان المنهج شبة التجريبي، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة قام الباحثان بإعداد برنامج قصصي واختبار لمهارات التعبير الشفوي، وقد تم التأكد من صدق البرنامج وأدوات الدراسة وثباتهما بالطرق المناسبة. وتم اختيار أفراد الدراسة بالطريقة القصدية، وتكون أفراد الدراسة من (40) طالبة من طالبات الصف الأول الأساسي في مدرسة الخنساء الثانوية للبنات التابعة للمدارس الحكومية في مديرية التربية والتعليم للواء سحاب، في الفصل الدراسي الأول للعام الدراسي2021/ 2020م، يتوزعن على مجموعتين، إحداهما تجريبية مكونة من (20) طالبة، والأخرى ضابطة مكونة من (20) طالبة. وقد أظهرت نتائج الدراسة وجود أثر ذي دلالة إحصائية عند مستوى الدلالة (0.05≥α) لصالح إستراتيجية السرد القصصي. وخلصت الدراسة إلى عدة توصيات؛ تمثلت في حث معلمي ومعلمات الصف الأول لتوظيف إستراتيجية السرد القصصي في تنمية مهارات التعبير الشفوي، كما أوصت الدراسة باهتمام المشرفين التربويين بإستراتيجية السرد القصصي وإعطاء دورات لمعلمي الصف الأول لتوظيف هذه الإستراتيجية في تعلم مهارات التعبير الشفوي. الكلمات المفتاحية: السرد القصصي، مهارات التعبير الشفوي، الصف الأول

Scripting, space design and user movement in room-scale VR: Storytelling strategies to direct gesture and gaze.

This text draws on the experience of developing and exhibiting two room-scale VR artworks in order to discuss the relationship between scripting, virtual space design, and interactive design with the audience’s movements and expected position in the VR and physical space. Different design and scripting strategies allow or impede to anticipate the specific position of the audience at every given time, and this anticipation is key to articulate the virtual elements in a way that responds to not just the gaze but also the overall movement of the person wearing the headset. Both artworks present different approaches from this point of view. In comparing them, two main design choices are shown to particularly affect this possibility of anticipation: simplicity vs. complexity of visual and interactive elements, and sequencing vs. simultaneity. While none of the design strategies is more desirable than the other per se, these conclusions shed some light on how to script and design for VR experiences in terms of deciding how much the artist wants to control, or anticipate, the body movements of their audience when experiencing their piece. 

THE CENTRALITY OF THE NARRATIVE STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE STRATEGY IN SAM UKALA’S IDEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK

African literary drama draws its artistic materials from the numerous forms of Oral literature. Storytelling, an ancient but living oral tradition is one of such forms that some African dramatists have resorted to in expressing their various themes. As such, storytelling has created an orally rich variant of contemporary African literary drama as demonstrated in Ukala’s dramaturgy. Primarily sourcing his plays from folk material, Ukala is known for reviving and sustaining the storytelling performance via his ‘folkism’ theory which thrives on spontaneity in performance. This paper investigates the centrality of the storytelling strategy in his Akpakaland, Iredi War and Break a Boil as located in his ‘folkist’ ideology. The paper draws attention to such defining characteristics of indigenous storytelling as the opening and closing formulae, improvisation, audience involvement, the pivotal role of the narrator, etc. In so doing, it locates storytelling as the central artistic requirement that not only imbues Ukala’s plays with its aesthetic relevance but also drives its reflection of societal issues.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0058/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Venture tales: Practical storytelling strategies underpinning entrepreneurial narratives

Narratives help entrepreneurs and potential venture supporters to make sense of new ventures and to frame entrepreneurial journeys. Despite current understanding of how narratives shape entrepreneurial outcomes, however, there is limited guidance about how entrepreneurs might craft their own narratives in practice. In this article, we identify six types of entrepreneurial narratives—(1) an identity narrative, (2) an opportunity narrative, (3) a projective narrative, (4) a failure narrative, (5) a pivot narrative, and (6) a resourcefulness narrative—and we detail practical storytelling strategies entrepreneurs can use to shape each of these narrative types. We then propose that entrepreneurs can combine, sequence, and revise these narratives as the entrepreneurial journey unfolds. Knowledge of how to strategically manage the full entrepreneurial narrative repertoire enables entrepreneurs to create meaning and value where there once was none and to capture that value over time as a venture grows.

Examining the Brand Storytelling Key Considerations and Practices in B2B SMEs on Facebook

This paper investigates the use of brand storytelling on Facebook in the context of business-to-business (B2B) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in the Namibian capital, Windhoek. Branding is often used for business-to-consumer (B2C) products, but the same applies to B2B, as both sectors face a fiercely competitive environment, felt by all SMEs. The study provides insight into how brand storytelling is used for B2B marketing on Facebook. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted across organisations representing key SME owner-managers. The results show that B2B marketing of SMEs uses social media to generate content and influence other B2B markets through collaborations and storytelling strategies about the brands. The study demonstrates how SMEs can use the power of brand storytelling to influence audiences competitively on Facebook. This study explains the use of Facebook by inter-firm brand storytelling mechanisms in terms of the storytelling’s characteristics rather than the individual aspects of the business (e.g., their message and visuals). It provides insight into the authenticity of brand storytelling and explores its collaborative benefits to maximise the SMEs’ limited resources. Insightful implications are that B2B can capture benefits from Facebook use for SMEs with the audience by leveraging storytelling strategies.

Эпистолярная дидактика В.А. Жуковского (на материале переписки с членами царской семьи)

Today it is obvious that the texts created by Zhukovsky, including personal letters, are mostly “saturated” with ideas of educative instruction, expressed directly or in subtext. These ideas are organically part of the romantic concepts of life-creation and self-building, and lead the poet to specific socio-cultural practices, in particular, pedagogical ones. The article deals with Zhukovsky's letters to the royal children (Grand Dukes Alexander Nikolayevich, Konstantin Nikolayevich, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna) and their parents, Nicholas I and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, of the 1820s - early 1850s, as well as response letters from these addressees. The aim of the article is to study this part of Zhukovsky's epistolary works from the perspective of its didactic dominant, which researchers have not yet explored. The article models a holistic concept of Zhukovsky's didactics as educative instruction, analyses different strategies for its presentation in letters to royal persons, depending on the addressee, and also considers Zhukovsky's use of epistolary practices for didactic purposes. The author refers to the methodology of research in the field of “court pedagogy”, epistolary practices of the first third of the 19th century, life-building and life-creation, and works about Zhukovsky as a writer-educator. The historical and cultural method of research is also used, which makes it possible to see the place of Zhukovsky's epistolary didactics in the pedagogical tradition. The analysis carried out led to the following conclusions. Most of Zhukovsky's letters of a didactic nature are addressed to his pupil and student, Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich. They highlight two of the most common meanings of statements. The first and dominant determines the educational pathos of the text; the second, actually didactic, is the main one in later messages addressed to the Grand Duke about the education of his children. In the letters, as a rule, Zhukovsky focuses on the representation of events from the life of the state through the prism of history as a moral process filled with behavioural models that give the reader the vector of their perception, experience and comprehension. Zhukovsky's letters to Maria Nikolaevna, which develop her figurative thinking, ability to see the world based on the romantic principle of universalism, perceive and create texts based on romantic philosophy, are distinguished by a special style, defined by Zhukovsky as “chatter”, which obviously intersects with Pushkin's storytelling strategies. Zhukovsky's epistolary didactics in relation to Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich is characterised primarily by the range of discussed issues of a philosophical, moral, ethical and aesthetic nature, focused on the idea of life-creation. Zhukovsky adopted his own features of epistolary didactics in relation to the parents of his students. In general, the most significant achievements of Zhukovsky's romantic philosophy, aesthetics and poetics are involved in his epistolary didactics. Created according to the general laws of romantic epistolary literature, the letters of the writer-educator completed his multifaceted creative system as a holistic one.

ІННОВАЦІЙНІ ІНСТРУМЕНТИ МАРКЕТИНГОВИХ СТРАТЕГІЙ РОЗВИТКУ ТУРИЗМУ НА РЕГІОНАЛЬНОМУ РІВНІ

The article summarizes the scientific and practical approaches to implementing marketing strategies for regional tourism development and identifies and characterizes their essential innovative tools. Territorial marketing strategies have recently become a topical subject of scientific research and a popular tool for promoting regions and increasing their competitiveness. Regional development marketing strategies are initiatives aimed at promoting and improving a specific region's economic and social conditions. The application of such elements of regional tourism development marketing strategies as niche tourism, digital platforms, and storytelling is substantiated. A niche tourism strategy targets specific market segments, such as adventure tourism, ecotourism, or cultural tourism. Tourism regions can use digital platforms to interact with visitors and collect data about their preferences and behavior. By analyzing this data, you can better understand your target market and develop more effective marketing strategies. Storytelling is a marketing strategy because people are more likely to be impressed by a place if they can emotionally connect with it. By creating and sharing stories about the region, its people, and its culture, you can connect emotionally with potential visitors and increase their likelihood of coming. The use of the described marketing tools within the strategies of niche tourism, digital platforms, and storytelling will make it possible shortly, after guaranteeing the safety of tourism in Ukraine, to ensure the rapid development of such promising types and directions of tourism as sustainable and ecological, adventure, cultural, health and healing tourism, and as well as immersive (virtual) and technological tourism. The proposed innovative marketing tools can be used to develop effective strategies for developing tourism at the regional level. However, the effectiveness of these strategies may vary depending on the context and regional characteristics. Implementing marketing strategies will become especially important in Ukraine after the war's end, but it is necessary to develop such strategies using innovative marketing tools now.

Employing Read-Aloud Instructional Strategy to Transform Reading Attitudes of ESL Leaners

This study focuses on the influence of read-aloud instructional strategy on the reading attitudes of elementary school students in Pakistan. The study was experimental, where a read-aloud instructional strategy was used to investigate its influence on reading attitudes of elementary students. Thirty students (aged 7-8 years) were selected as intact groups of 15 each for the experimental and control group, respectively. The read-aloud strategy of storytelling was used as an intervention for the experimental group for the entire academic year, whereas the control group was taught with a traditional oral storytelling method. Data for reading attitudes were collected through a questionnaire identifying the reading habits and practices of the elementary students. The mean differences in the pre-test and post-test results of the reading attitude questionnaire of both groups were compared using independent sample t-test, and paired sample t-test. The effect size was also calculated with a 95% confidence interval. The findings of the t-test and gain scores reveal significant statistical differences, indicating the effectiveness of the read-aloud technique in increasing the attitude to learn and read in English. A systematic and repeated read-aloud technique is proven by research to improve reading comprehension and vocabulary development in young learners. The read-aloud strategy is unique as it creates a classroom community of learners based on a story theme that forms the basis for developing language skills. Keywords: elementary education, Pakistan, read-aloud instructional strategy, reading attitude. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.60.55

STRATEGI PENCERITAAN FILM-FILM BERPRESTASI KARYA MAHASISWA FILM UMN YANG DIPRODUKSI DI TENGAH PANDEMI COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced filmmakers to set special production strategies so that their production can run safely. For this reason, the first thing that can be done is to design the right story for the COVID-19 pandemic situation at the development stage. This study tries to explore the storytelling strategies taken by screenwriters in telling their stories in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The films selected for this analysis were films from Moving Image Production (MIP) students at the UMN Film Study Program which were produced with awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic and managed to participate in both national and international curated exhibition and gain some acknowledgment. The method of this research is qualitative and was done by conducting content analysis on existing narrative documents (synopsis, characterization, and scenarios) as well as literature review on related topics, themes and theories related to storytelling, specifically focusing on the analysis of characters and story settings.

Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices

It has been broadly proved that storytelling, which is regarded as a natural creative human activity, serves as an effective thinking tool for improving creativity in service design. In practice, however, the lack of support for storytelling affects the perceived usefulness and ease of storytelling for novice designers. This results in a low willingness to use storytelling, poor usage, and low design innovation among novice designers. Research has identified significant differences between experts and novices in the design process, and summarizing these differences in thinking strategies can effectively guide novices in design activities. In previous research, we have successfully used the six thinking hats for novices to learn expert strategies and enhance their creativity. The purpose of this study is to compare differences between experts and novices in storytelling strategies and design behaviors in process, in order to understand how to support novices in storytelling and enhance creativity. The study uses verbal protocol analysis to explore the differences between three teams of novices and three teams of experts. We use the De Bono's "six thinking hats" thinking tool to decode designers' implicit and latent design thinking and use Burke's "dramatistic pentad" theory to extract the design teams' storytelling thinking. The results show significant differences between experts and novices in storytelling strategy and construction process, where experts tend to have more efficient storytelling strategies and design behaviors than novices. The expert strategies we found can guide design educators to support students when solving service design problems and provide important theoretical support and methodological guidance for instructing novices in expert storytelling strategies.

Supporting Emergent Writing with Oral Storytelling Strategies

AbstractIn early childhood classrooms, little time is spent writing (Gerde et al., Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 31, 34, 2015), and students receive limited supports to enhance their writing skills (Bingham et al., Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 39, 35, 2017). In early childhood, when students experience rich writing environments where their creativity is fostered through appropriately scaffolded experiences, their understanding of the relationship between oral and written language grows (Gerde et al., Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 31, 34, 2015), their writing performance improves (Bingham et al., Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 39, 35, 2017), and their foundational literacy skills are supported (Rowe et al., The Reading Teacher, 75, 485, 2021). Oral storytelling is an example of a culturally sustaining practice (Flores & Springer, Theory Into Practice, 60, 312, 2021) that can facilitate writing development (Kirby et al., Reading & Writing Quarterly, 37, 574, 2021). Building from teaching experiences in three racially, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse kindergarten classes in the mid‐south, this Teaching and Learning Guide demonstrates three easily implemented strategies for oral storytelling that support emergent writing. These strategies helped students leverage knowledge from their family and community resources, generate ideas for writing, add details to their oral narratives, and adopt the narrative discourse structures typically found in school‐based literature. Each strategy includes a description of the implementation, authentic examples of student responses, and suggestions for adopting this practice in other contexts.

Classroom Management In EFL For Young Learners at SDIT Syahiral 'Ilmi : The Strategies And Challenges

This study aims to examine classroom management in EFL for young students, especially about strategies and challenges. This research uses qualitative methods with case study design and data collection techniques using semi-structured interviews and observation. The participants of this study were 2 English teachers who teach at SDIT Syahiral Ilmi and were selected using a purposive sampling technique where the participants involved were English teachers who taught as homeroom teachers. The findings of this study are that the teacher uses seating arrangements based on student qualifications and uses a rolling system, the teacher tries to maximize the lesson plan, the teacher corrects the students depending on the student's condition and based on the student's pronouncement, the teacher also uses storytelling strategies and by provoking students' curiosity, class rules read and agreed at the beginning of the semester. This study also found several challenges for teachers in classroom management including; there are some children who are hyper active in class, parents are dishonest to the teacher, discipline the class, make students focus, then there are some children who are inclusive.

Storytelling for a republic of childhood: rebranding China’s national images in children’s literature

This article delineates the discursive trajectory of Chinese children’s literature and explicates its specific storytelling strategies to integrate nation and narration, tradition and modernity, nationalism and internationalism. At the intersection of nation building, storytelling and comparative literature, it is argued that Chinese children’s literature, developed from a comparative perspective and as an alternative vision of Paul Hazard’s “universal republic of childhood,” not only manifests paradoxical literary features, given the asymmetry of global literary distribution and power relations, but also converges with and enriches world children’s literature in China’s ongoing process of raising its cultural soft power. The paradox inherent in globalising Chinese children’s literature leads to the reconceptualisation of translation and cross-cultural readability of genres as essential to a richer construct of national images on the world literary map.

Storytelling Techniques and Features of Plot Structure in Web Series

Web series are a modern and actively developing audiovisual format, which, however, has so far received only limited attention from researchers. The format’s specific nature implies that it must be viewed from three angles at once: as an audiovisual product, in many ways akin to television and cinema formats; as a type of Internet content that exists in tune with the laws of its environment; and, finally, as a series per se, created with the canons and rules of serial narration in mind. Building on these three key aspects, it is possible to identify the specific format features of a web series and to find out how they influence its creation process, for example, in terms of storytelling strategies used in web series scriptwriting.This article examines nine web series of different genres, produced in nine countries around the world. The aim of the study is to discover and trace the relationship between the specific features of web series as a format and the story structure of the selected series. Joseph Campbell’s monomyth scheme serves as a main tool of analysis and allows to present this structure as a series of key stages, making it explicit. As a result, it becomes visible how the hero’s classic journey gets transformed in a web series. This makes it possible to identify the main features of storytelling in this format and the techniques used by screenwriters. These techniques include, in particular, a quick start of the story, a focus on the heroes’ inner journey, complete exclusion of their parents from the plot, and some others. Thus, the study comes to the conclusion that the specificity of web series as a format is not only taken into account by screenwriters, but also forces them to transform the classic plot schemes to a large extent.