Story Telling Aspects in Medical Applications

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

نقش صوفیه در گسترش آیین‌های نقالی و روضه‌خوانی

The present study attempts to investigate the role of Sufism in development of story-telling, naqqāli (narrating of important old Iranian stories) and Rawzahkhāni (telling story of mourning for Imams) arranged in three sections. The first part of the article is intended to inspect story-telling as a social practice of Sufism. It also expresses the reasons behind Safavid Scholars’ opposition wit...

Web-Based Learning with Non-linear Multimedia Stories

Stories and story-telling are a cultural achievement of significant relevance, even in modern times. Since ancient times stories have served to entertain and teach mankind to “transmit” knowledge from generation to generation. Story-telling ranges from simple aural narrations to traditional inter-generational discourse and, in modern times, workflow-oriented organizational learning. Web-based s...

Time Variation of Design “story Telling” in Engineering Design Teams

Engineering design practice can be viewed as a process of “story telling,” where the “stories” generated explore various aspects of the design process and the designed artefact. This paper focuses on the study of the design process by using computational linguistics to analyze time variant patterns of “story telling” in eight multidisciplinary student design teams at the University of Californi...

The Method of Story-Telling in Ethical Education in the View of Shahid Motahhari

Morteza Motahari is one of those speaking on ethics in contemporary Iran. In addition to his extensive theoretical efforts for the theoretical foundations of the Islamic Movement, writing simple works for the public, he tried to promote certain moral values. If his moral reformist minds were to be recognized, it would be necessary to study the same series of his works, since they indicate the m...