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Book Title

The Power of Storytelling in Teaching Practices: Narratives from Hong Kong and Afar

Editors

Dean A. F. GUI (English Language Centre), Dora WONG

Publisher

Routledge

Year of Publication

2023

ISBN

9781032252605


 

Introduction

Featuring storytelling as a central theme, this book examines the role of narrative inquiry in social processes of establishing teacher knowledge and identity to provide new insights into the role of storytelling in education’s teaching and learning paradigm.

Gui and Wong engage with a body of academics, creative writers, and researchers looking at the role of storytelling in Hong Kong education. The book is split into three sections of storytelling: introspective, agentive, and collaborative. Examining personal accounts of teachers using storytelling to reflect on and transform feelings, the authors reconstruct the traditional pedagogical and learner practices into new opportunities for civic participation and generative community practices. With attention to educators who make use of collaborative experiences to develop narrative approaches and foster community identities, the chapters explore existing pedagogical, creative, and scholarly literature for re-purposing narratives, teacher transformation, and learner participation.

With the use of autoethnographic accounts, this book’s innovative approach to storytelling will appeal to professional educators, teachers, and researchers in the fields of literacy, narrative inquiry, and creative writing. Scholars engaging with reflexive, participatory, and collaborative modes of teaching and learning will find this an essential read.

 

Content

Introduction

1. The intro-spectator, the agent and the collaboration-maker: Storytellers in the time of pandemonium

Dean A. F. Gui

Part 1: Personal Narratives and Transformation: The Introspective Storyteller

2. The power of teacher narrative: Critical incidents as an impetus for teacher professional development

Icy Lee

3. "Jump off the building, commit suicide!": A sombre journey towards trust, self-importance, storytelling, and collaborative teaching and learning in Hong Kong through a proposed i.e. poetic-memoir

Dean A. F. Gui

Part 2: Repurposed Narratives and Participation: The Agentive Storyteller

4. Empathy, rhetoric and dramatic speech writing

Jason E. H. Lee

5. The department poet: On institutional demands, on writing from the heart

Eddie Tay

Part 3: Inter-Narratives and Development: The Collaborative Storyteller

6. "Before the Law" Merging process drama with creative writing in new media

Dora Wong

7. Crisis pedagogy in creative writing: Emergency, expedience, hindsight, reckoning

Marshall Moore and Adrian Markle

Conclusion

8. A new story in the making: Problems, perspectives, pedagogies, practices and prospect

Dora Wong

* Owners of respective book covers are credited. Book covers are for reference only. FH is unable to accept responsibility of any inaccurate information.

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