ERIC Number: EJ1189973
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
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ISSN: ISSN-0167-8329
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Storytelling: Practice and Process as Non-Textual Pedagogy
McDowell, Kate
Education for Information, v34 n1 p15-19 2018
Storytelling, as a practice and process, is a longstanding tool and non-textual pedagogy in the field of library and information science. Storytelling is also the topic of a graduate course taught for the past eleven years by the author as a tool for all forms of professional communication. This article explores the non-textual (and selected textual) pedagogies involved in teaching storytelling as an interactive communication practice. This pedagogical approach defines storytelling as involving a dynamic triangle of telling, listening, and story, drawing on both folklore and storytelling performance scholarship. Three themes weave throughout the syllabus: ethics, applications, and technologies. Storytelling brings the teller and audience into a reciprocal process of listening and telling, from which a fresh story of professional meaning and purpose can emerge.
Descriptors: Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students, Library Science, Information Science, Interpersonal Communication, Folk Culture, Course Descriptions, Ethics, Listening, Audience Awareness
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois
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