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Publication Date: 2007-Jun
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Story Telling or Storied Telling? Media's Pedagogical Ability to Shape Narrative as a Form of "Knowing"
Blevins, Dean G.
Religious Education, v102 n3 p250-263 Jun 2007
Storytellers know that stories are "formed" in their telling. Stories, whether oral or written, personal or mass communicated, ultimately express the boundaries of their medium (their "embodiment" through mediated forms). Religious Educators must always address the medium as well as the message in any theory of narrative accounting. Media often "bounds" the story according to time, space, and intensity. Certain technology blurs ideas of public and private storytelling with advent of Web-logs or Blogs as a peculiar medium popular with youth. Blogging illustrates the possibilities of narrative as a pedagogical practice through the embodiment or medium of the story.
Descriptors: Religious Education, Story Telling, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Journal Writing, Web Sites, Educational Practices, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication
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