Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

by Jo-Ann Archibald

Overview

Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories have the power to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit. It builds on the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy that form a framework for understanding the characteristics of stories, appreciating the process of storytelling, establishing a receptive learning context, and engaging in holistic meaning-making.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780774814027
Publisher:	University of British Columbia Press
Publication date:	07/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	745,883
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jo-ann Archibald (Q'um Q'um Xiiem) from the Stó:lo Nation is associate dean for Indigenous education at the University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Preface

1 The Journey Begins

2 Coyote Searching for the Bone Needle

3 Learning about Storywork from Sto:lo Elders

4 The Power of Stories for Educating the Heart

5 Storywork in Action

6 Storywork Pedagogy

7 A Give-Away

Notes

References

Index