Creative Storytelling: Building Community, Changing Lives

by Jack Zipes

Overview

Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive storytelling that creates and strengthens a sense of community for students, teachers and parents while extolling storytelling as animation, subversion, and self-discovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136661624
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	599 KB

About the Author

Jack Zipes

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Setting the Scene with Fairy Tales; Chapter 1 The Initial Encounter; Chapter 2 Mixing It Up with Salad Games and Acrostics; Chapter 3 Playing with Fortune; Chapter 4 In Celebration of Peace; Part 2 Exploring Genres; Chapter 5 The Wisdom of the Beasts; Chapter 6 Paying the Piper, or How Legends Lead People On; Chapter 7 Mythmaking; Chapter 8 Tall Tales; Chapter 9 Somewhere over the Rainbow; Chapter 10 Strange Encounters with Science Fiction; Chapter 11 New Perspectives through Creative Dramatics and Video; Part 3 Storytelling in Context; Chapter 12 On the Use and Abuse of Storytelling;

Editorial Reviews

Storytelling at all grade levels delights both children and their teachers, and this manual will undoubtedly be useful to teachers. Zipes describes his own ventures in classroom storytelling and outlines the process for teachers to follow. Particularly interesting are the variations of fairy tales that Zipes has researched. Without being overly scholarly, he whets the appetite, allowing teachers to develop their material according to time and interest. Zipes also includes useful material on the structure of fairy tales, as well as other types of stories such as the utopian tale and the myth. His final chapter gives suggestions for further reading that will extend the teacher's understanding of storytelling. A good "Notes and Sources" section and an extensive bibliography complete this concise and very useful aid to storytelling at all levels of the classroom. For academic collections.Nancy E. Zuwiyya, Binghamton City Sch. Dist., N.Y.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Zipes is serious about his storytelling. His book is based on a program he has developed for schools and libraries in which storytelling becomes an integral part of the curriculum, not just an entertainment. After a solid discussion of why integration of storytelling in schools and libraries is a good idea, he goes on to discuss the different kinds of tales and offers specific telling techniques that can facilitate the kind of experience he thinks storytelling should be. In the last chapter, which is his very personal view of storytelling, Zipes looks at classic tales, so often featuring abused children, and correlates them to what is happening with child abuse today. Not everyone will agree with Zipes' methods or conclusions, but this is certainly thought provoking.

Ilene Cooper