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ERIC Number: EJ368638
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Storytelling and Science.
Martin, Kathleen; Miller, Etta
Language Arts, v65 n3 p255-59 Mar 1988
Argues that the nature of science texts adopted in most schools is unscientific, static, linear, and nonparticipatory and offers children no connections between forms and forces, between observers and observed. Claims that through storytelling scientific knowledge can be kept alive for children. (NH)
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Primary Education, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction, Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Textbooks
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Instructional Format; Instructional Theory
Note: Themed Issue: Literary Discourse as a Way of Knowing.