Story telling: crafting identities

Story telling: crafting identities

Career guidance clients are seeking to craft new identities that better position them in their careers. The focus of the present article is on narrative career counselling's potential contribution in providing a meaningful and useful experience for career guidance clients. To illustrate the potential of narrative career counselling, the story telling approach is offered as an example to illustr...

Telling a story

The genre of storytelling in the form of case studies is an effective way of teaching and learning. Contemporary research on the case method is absent in the academic discipline of communication. This issue needs to be addressed and research on the effectiveness of the case method needs to be done in the academic area of communication. This paper discusses the reasons behind the popularity of t...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Telling ‘another’ Story: Western Museums and the Creation of Non-western Identities

Contemporary museums are ‘among the most successful leisure venues in the world’ (Falk 2009: 21). At the same time, they are cultural forums, where people’s [hi]stories (understood both as reconstructed pasts and events) can be discussed in informal and public ways, and where personal memories are materialised and shared, through collections (Pearce 1998). This is particularly true when museum ...

Narrative and story telling Chair :

This paper will describe technical developments within the Kidstory project aimed at moving the technology used within schools to aid the acquisition of storytelling skills in young children away from the model of one or two children sitting in front of a monitor. We are aiming towards scenarios of larger groups interacting naturally with responsive objects that hide the manner in which they co...