The Folkloral Voice
In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling, modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice. Through multilayered conversations with individuals and groups traditional storytellers, teachers, children he examines the dynamic nature of oral culture, its embodied nature, its connection to place, and its use of metaphor, laughter, ethnicity, and intergenerational conversation to create unique kinds of interactions and learning. Offering storytelling as anancestral template of good teaching, Sewall demonstrates how teachers can use the folkoral voice to inform and transform classroom practice.
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The Folkloral Voice
In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling, modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice. Through multilayered conversations with individuals and groups traditional storytellers, teachers, children he examines the dynamic nature of oral culture, its embodied nature, its connection to place, and its use of metaphor, laughter, ethnicity, and intergenerational conversation to create unique kinds of interactions and learning. Offering storytelling as anancestral template of good teaching, Sewall demonstrates how teachers can use the folkoral voice to inform and transform classroom practice.
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The Folkloral Voice

The Folkloral Voice

by Ian William Sewall
The Folkloral Voice

The Folkloral Voice

by Ian William Sewall

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Overview

In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling, modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice. Through multilayered conversations with individuals and groups traditional storytellers, teachers, children he examines the dynamic nature of oral culture, its embodied nature, its connection to place, and its use of metaphor, laughter, ethnicity, and intergenerational conversation to create unique kinds of interactions and learning. Offering storytelling as anancestral template of good teaching, Sewall demonstrates how teachers can use the folkoral voice to inform and transform classroom practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138403567
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/11/2017
Series: International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Preface, 1 To places that are remote, 2 Orality, 3 Metaphor, 4 Laughter, 5 The intergenerational conversation, 6 And if the fiddle string hadn’t broke, Bibliography, Index
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