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• W56690310 abstract "The late novelist Walker Percy once argued that literature, especially fictional stories, has portrayed a clearer and far more cohesive picture of the human condition than any of the social sciences, including history. (1) His ideas hint at the possibility of conceptualizing the American experience as the story that it is and as a way of organizing historical information in a more holistic manner in the teacher's mind. Viewing history as a story and teaching the subject as storytelling are metaphors that he believes offer stronger possibilities for bringing overall coherence and interest to history instruction. A number of educational scholars have also advocated the use of storytelling as a means of teaching. D. Common noted the organizing power of using the metaphor of storytelling in teaching: Stories are narrative units. Because they are units, they speak forcefully to those who plan for teaching. Stories have particular, clear beginnings and particular, clear ends. It is their unity of wholeness and circumscription that distinguishes stories from other types of narratives. (2) Egan adds that: The story does not deal with anything except the problem set up in the beginning once it is under way. Everything in the story is focused on that central task.... Stories, then, have clear means of determining what should be included and excluded. We recognize as bad stories those that include things that do not take the story forward. (3) Interestingly, voices on the right and left in social education have called for the presentation of history as story-telling. Conservatives including Diane Ravitch, William Bennett, and Chester Finn have argued for a shift to what they term the traditional social studies, which involves primarily the simple telling of our nation's story. (4) Similarly, the radical Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci also argued for the same shift, having said that history taught through storytelling: ... provides a basis for the subsequent development of an historical, dialectical conception of the world, which understands movement and change, which appreciates the sum of effort and sacrifice which the present has cost the past and which the future is costing the present, and which conceives the contemporary world as a synthesis of the past, of all the past generations, which projects itself into the future. (5) It would seem strange at first glance that a socialist reformer and the more order-seeking conservatives in social studies both see the teaching of history as the key to achieving their opposite agendas. However, the strangeness dissipates when one considers that the stories and dramas of history can clearly convey the paradoxical need that cultures have for creating both order and change, as well as show how this might be accomplished. A conventional lecture that simply renders straight historical facts could never carry these paradoxes in the same way. In my judgment, historically everyone has a story worth being told. (6) That story portrays an individual's (or group's) character in relation to a situation that has active consequences. Sometimes, these consequences are important not only for the individual who experiences them, but for the entire nation. A story is essentially driven by characters and their actions. Conflict within characters or between characters shapes and generates the story's plot. Consequently, the basic theme of a story is usually about (1) conflict and resolution to one degree or another; and (2) psychological/personal changes that may occur with the characters by the time of resolution. Note further that such resolution need not necessarily be an unqualified victory. The changes that may occur in a character's personal life because of decisions the character makes regarding the conflict often carry relevant personal/psychological truths for the listener/reader. …" @default.
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• W56690310 title "Telling Tales: The Teaching of American History through Storytelling." @default.
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