Young People, Learning and Storytelling

• Main Author: Parfitt, Emma (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education
• Subjects: Art education.; Theater.; Children's literature.; Literacy.; Alternative Education.; Creativity and Arts Education.; Theatre and Performance Studies.; Children's Literature.

This book explores the lives of young people through the lens of storytelling. Using extensive qualitative and empirical data from young people's conversations following storytelling performances in secondary schools in the UK, the author considers the benefits of stories and storytelling for l...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Setting the Stage
• Chapter 2. Little Red Eats the Wolf: Storytelling Relationships
• Chapter 3. The Repulsive Frog: Is It Possible to Escape Being Danced to Pieces?
• Chapter 4. Who Ate My Heart? Storytelling and Emotion
• Chapter 5. The Will of the Gods and Goddesses: Shaping or Disrupting the World Through Storytelling
• Chapter 6. Burning the Candle Down.