Dear Derek, I embed two links to recent publications accessible on Google Scholar that relate  to storytelling (and narrative) and teaching and learning. I also embed a link to a thread on RG about digital storytelling. An interesting field!

https://scholar.google.co.za/scholar?as_ylo=2012&q=storytelling+and+%27teaching%27+and+learning&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

https://scholar.google.co.za/scholar?as_ylo=2012&q=Narrative+and+%27teaching%27+and+learning&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_incorporate_digital_storytelling_in_your_teaching

Thank you Leona. I will certainly look into this. Freud said somewhere that human beings are story telling animals. I over the years i have noticed the significant difference to teaching and learning that story telling can engender.

Thanks again.

Derek

Storytelling is both art and science.I use storytelling (as a part of edutainment) in my practice.I described it in my articles a lot, if you are interested in it. Simulation, role plays,theatralization are very effective methods. It may be used in the stage of anticipation(my 8-steps long-term cross-cultural project). Engagement into a fairy-tale is popular among children. The most famous author is Andrew Wright "Storytelling with children"Oxford University Press,2009. D.Armstrong "MBSA:Managing by storytelling around". K.Thompson: "conception of engagement".Mark Kukushkin offers storytelling as: anecdote-enhancement; action space training group; play-back performance; anti-stories (sarcasm, absurd, metaphor, exaggeration).

http://www.a-training.ru/sources/storytelling/

Thank you Irina and Harshvardhan this is very helpful. I will keep you posted as to progress of my research.

Theano Papazoglu Magaris was a Greek woman who published in early 20th C. Chicago.  She chose storytelling as her rhetorical mode that was sanctioned for Greek immigrant women in early 20th C. Chicago to comment on topical issues.  My diss profiles here:  _From 'Spoken-of' to Speakers_.  I have uploaded the diss here in ResearchGate. (2003).

Thank you. This sounds very interesting.

You're welcome, Derek.  Hope it helps and all the other interesting contributions here.

Dunbar and Redhead have conducted a study on the question what kind of Information is best remembered. The results indicate that social content is better remembered than informational content, which may also favour narrative Information over strictly factual information. This may well tie in with the idea that oral cultures often encode Information in narratives - e.g. myth or stories.

Redhead, Gina and Dunbar, Robin I.M. “  The Functions of Language: An Experimental Study”. Evolutionary Psychology vol. 11:4, 2013, 845-854.

Thank you this is a very valuable reference.

Hi Derek,

I am interested in what Rorty called "the linguistic turn" in the Social Sciences and I am researching narrative approaches to therapy. There is a lot of work on this area:  it has been said that as human beings our identities are constituted through stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the stories others tell us about ourselves.

Article Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Thera...

Thank you. I am also using Boolas' book on Free Association that opens a new perspective on story telling. Most of my research is related to Winnicott's theory of transitional objects and potential space that I apply to teaching creative practices  (Pigrum 2009) and recently I began to perceive a vital link to story telling.

I am pursuing links between Freud's stages of development, Winnicott's transitional objects, Hemingway's psychosexual fetishism and the development of an adult narrative explored though creative processes.

Psycholinguistics and Effective psychotechnics- by R.M.Frumkina. Thinking and Memory- by V.P.Zinchenko. It develops voluntary and unvoluntary memorization, as well as motor, emotional,spatial,verbal,image memory.Hermeutics- by G.I.Bogin,Aesthetics by M.Bakhtin, V.S.Bibler - Dialogue of cultures, Thinking as creation, Vasilyev V.V, Psychological effects on the lesons,

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE,_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

http://www.koob.ru/frumkina/

http://www.fondgp.ru/gp/personalia/1970/6

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

http://www.bibler.ru/shdkom_be_shdk.html

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

https://www.livelib.ru/book/1000338702

John Schultz's "Story Workshop" method might be of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_Workshop

Dear Jeff,

Thank you i will certainly look into this.

Best wishes

Derek

Great work in Sindhi Language.