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Using story : in higher education and professional development / Jennifer Moon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 189 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415564694 (pbk.)
  • 0415564697 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.17 MOO
Contents:
Introduction : bringing story into education and professional development -- The multiple dimensions of story -- Learning and the understanding of stories -- The deployment of meaning in story -- Social, cultural and communication functions of story -- Taking stock : reflecting on insights and the educational roles of story -- Enhancing thinking and learning processes with story -- Stories of experience in personal and professional development -- Story as case study, scenario and critical incident -- Story for promoting change -- Story and research -- Uses of fiction in education -- Oral storytelling in education -- New ways with story -- Afterthoughts.
Summary: Jenny Moon explores the theory of story and demonstrates both its current uses and new ways in which to enrich and enliven teaching, learning and research processes. --from publisher description
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Story is everywhere in human lives and cultures and it features strongly in the processes of teaching and learning. Story can be called narrative, case study, critical incident, life history, anecdote, scenario, illustration or example, creative writing, storytelling; it is a unit of communication, it is in the products of the media industries, in therapy and in our daily acts of reflecting. Stories are 'told' in many ways - they are spoken, written, filmed, mimed or acted, presented as cartoons and in new media formats and through all these, they are associated with both teaching and learning processes but in different ways and at different levels. As a result of growing interest and simultaneous confusion about story, it is timely to untangle the various meanings of story so that we can draw out and extend its value and use.

Using Story aims to clarify what we mean by story, to seek out where story occurs in education and life and to explore the processes by which we learn from story. In this way the book intends to 'bring story into the open' and improve its use. Building on her wealth of experience in the field, Jenny Moon explores the theory of story and demonstrates both its current uses and new ways in which to enrich and enliven teaching, learning and research processes.

Ideal for anyone involved in education, personal or professional development or with a more general interest in story, the book begins by considering the range of what is meant by story, and then considers the theory behind the meanings. In the large final part of the book, Jenny provides a rich patchwork of different uses of story in education that cut across forms of story, story activities, disciplines and applications all of which will aid the use of story.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-186) and index.

Introduction : bringing story into education and professional development -- The multiple dimensions of story -- Learning and the understanding of stories -- The deployment of meaning in story -- Social, cultural and communication functions of story -- Taking stock : reflecting on insights and the educational roles of story -- Enhancing thinking and learning processes with story -- Stories of experience in personal and professional development -- Story as case study, scenario and critical incident -- Story for promoting change -- Story and research -- Uses of fiction in education -- Oral storytelling in education -- New ways with story -- Afterthoughts.

Jenny Moon explores the theory of story and demonstrates both its current uses and new ways in which to enrich and enliven teaching, learning and research processes. --from publisher description

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. vii)
  • Part I Some introductory ideas (p. 1)
  • 1 Introduction: bringing story into education and professional development (p. 3)
  • 2 The multiple dimensions of story (p. 12)
  • Part II Theory: story and human functioning (p. 31)
  • 3 Learning and the understanding of stories (p. 33)
  • 4 The deployment of meaning in story (p. 54)
  • 5 Social, cultural and communication functions of story (p. 77)
  • 6 Taking stock: reflecting on insights and the educational roles of story (p. 90)
  • Part III Story in higher education and professional development: a treasury of ideas (p. 99)
  • 7 Enhancing thinking and learning processes with story (p. 101)
  • 8 Stories of experience in personal and professional development (p. 115)
  • 9 Story as case study, scenario and critical incident (p. 125)
  • 10 Story for promoting change (p. 131)
  • 11 Story and research (p. 138)
  • 12 Uses of fiction in education (p. 145)
  • 13 Oral storytelling in education (p. 153)
  • 14 New ways with story (p. 162)
  • Afterthoughts (p. 169)
  • References (p. 170)
  • Index (p. 187)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jennifer Moon works at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University and as an independent consultant running workshops in higher education and professional development in the UK and internationally.

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