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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of papers from an international inter-disciplinary conference focusing on storytelling and human life. The chapters in this volume provide unique accounts of how stories shape the narratives and discourses of people’s lives and work; and those of their families and broader social networks. From making sense of history; to documenting biographies and current pedagogical approaches; to exploring current and emerging spatial and media trends; this book explores the possibilities of narrative approaches as a theoretical scaffold across numerous disciplines and in diverse contexts. Central to all the chapters is the idea of stories being a creative and reflexive means to make sense of people’s past, current realities and future possibilities. Contributors are Prue Bramwell-Davis, Brendon Briggs, Laurinda Brown, Rachel Chung, Elizabeth Cummings, Szymon Czerkawski, Denise Dantas, Joanna Davidson, Nina Dvorko, Sarah Eagle, Theresa Edlmann, Gavin Fairbairn, Keven Fletcher, Sarah Garvey, Phyllis Hastings, Tracy Ann Hayes, Welby Ings, Stephanie Jacobs, Dean Jobb, Caroline M. Kisiel, Maria-Dolores Lozano, Mădălina Moraru, Michael R. Ogden, Nancy Peled, Valerie Perry, Melissa Lee Price, Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė, Irena Ragaišienė, Remko Smid, Paulette Stevens, Cheryl Svensson, Mary O’Brien Tyrrell, Shunichi Ueno, Leona Ungerer, Sarah White, Wai-ling Wong and Bridget Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu.
Table of Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributing Authors Acknowledgements Introduction Theresa Edlmann, Tracy Ann Hayes and Laurinda Brown Part 1: Pedagogical Perspectives Introduction to Part 1 Laurinda Brown 1 Telling True Stories: Creative Approaches to Bringing Nonfiction to Life Dean Jobb 2 “I Like to Give Things a Story”: One Teacher’s View of Teaching Mathematics Laurinda Brown and Maria Dolores Lozano (Lolis) 3 Learning to Play: Stories of Learning Mathematics, Language and Music Sarah Eagle 4 “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?”: Foundations and Methods for Revitalising Story Reading for Children Phyllis Hastings 5 Oral History and Storytelling: Reflection on an Alternative Approach of Teaching History Wai-ling Wong 6 Storytelling as a Research Tool in a User-centred Design Process Denise Dantas Part 2: Media Perspectives Introduction to Part 2 Laurinda Brown 7 Digital Storytelling on Life-Cycle Websites Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė 8 Digital Storytelling: Possible Applications in an Open Distance E-Learning Environment Leona Ungerer 9 A New Horizon of Non-Fiction Storytelling: The Use of Virtual Reality and Gaming Techniques Nina Dvorko 10 Visual Storytelling of Japaneseness in Manga, Anime and Japanese Film Shunichi Ueno Part 3: Healing Perspectives Introduction to Part 3 Theresa Edlmann 11 Stories from Different Sides: Reflections on Narrative-Based Dialogues in Addressing the Legacies of Apartheid Wars Theresa Edlmann 12 Invisible Stories: Loss, Recovery and the Rhetoric of War Welby Ings 13 The Place of Story and Storytelling in Clinical Contexts Elizabeth Mary Cummings 14 Singing the World: Narrative Medicine and Storied Existence Sarah Garvey and Rachel Chung 15 Can TV and Film Help Us to Understand Suicide Better? Gavin Fairbairn Part 4: Cultural Perspectives Introduction to Part 4 Theresa Edlmann 16 “People Insult Me – Oh my!”: Reflections on Jola Women’s Story-Songs in Rural West Africa Joanna Davidson 17 East African Stories of Love: Challenging Perspectives Brendon Briggs 18 Cultural Appropriation and the Telling of Wisdom Stories Keven Fletcher 19 Eventually All of the Citrus Trees Died: Stories of Love and Loss from a Village in Cyprus Stephanie Elisabeth Jacobs 20 Interactive/Transmedia Storytelling as Cultural Narrative: Stories of Family, Place and Identity Melissa Lee Price and Michael R. Ogden Part 5: Biographical Perspectives Introduction to Part 5 Tracy Ann Hayes 21 Sharing, Saving and Studying Life Stories: Diverse Perspectives Cheryl Svensson, Paulette Stevens, Sarah White, Mary O’Brien Tyrrell and Valerie Perry 22 Telling it as it Is: Women as Protagonists in Autobiographies Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu 23 Mothering on Kibbutz: A Personal/Communal Story Nancy Peled 24 Narrativisation of Identity in the Poetry as Life Writing of Lithuanian Women Émigrés Irena Ragaišienė 25 Sharing Stories: An Interactive, Interdisciplinary Approach Tracy Ann Hayes Part 6: Historical and Spatial Perspectives Introduction to Part 6 Tracy Ann Hayes 26 199 Years of Crossing the Atlantic: A Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing Scholar Dialogues with Her Travellers Caroline M. Kisiel 27 Representations of Time and Space in Advertising Stories Mădălina Moraru 28 Narration as a Source for Studies in Ethic Systems: An Historical, Psychological Perspective Szymon Czerkawski 29 Reinstating Narrative: The Role of Stories in Claudio Magris’s Post-postmodernist Historical Novels Remko Smid 30 “I so Regret the Barograph…” As We Make and Use Objects, so They Form and Mould Us Prue Bramwell-Davis Conclusion Looking Towards The Future And Continuing The Conversations Tracy Ann Hayes, Theresa Edlmann and Laurinda Brown Index
