On the book’s cover, Thomas Dormandy’s Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream is advertised to “encompass the entire history of the world’s most fascinating drug.” But at fewer than 400 pages, the book actually reads more like a story, or a series of stories, about opium’s role in various societies. The problem with storytelling, however, is that the whole thing hinges on the use of language. Awkward word...

Playback Theatre (PT) is an improvisational form of theatre in which a group of actors "play back" real life stories told by audience members. In PT, a conductor elicits moments, feelings and stories from audience members, and conducts mini-interviews with those who volunteer a moment of their lives to be re-enacted or "played" for the audience. A musician plays music according to the theme of ...

Although becoming a more racially-integrated society, the legacy of Apartheid still affects learners’ social engagements in and outside their classrooms. Adopting Nussbaum’s (2010) capabilities framework for a socially just democracy, this paper examines 27 pre-service teacher education students’ perceptions of a digital storytelling project and its potential for recognising and honouring capab...

having curly hair (persian: gīsvari) is one of the obscure and rare concepts in the epics and heroic stories but various texts and particularly some of the non-iranian sources pertaining to this issue could show us some evidenc regarding the ancient descriptions of warriors in indo-european culture. moreover, obstinacy (persian: sar-keshi), as one of the indispensable characters of heros, doesn...

BACKGROUND The rapid growth of eHealth could have the unintended effect of deepening health disparities between population subgroups. Most concerns to date have focused on population differences in access to technology, but differences may also exist in the appropriateness of online health content for diverse populations. OBJECTIVE This paper reports findings from the first descriptive study ...

afzalodin badil khaghani shervani and nezami ganjavi are two major stylist poets who had profound influences on later poets. most of the khaghani’s poems are lucid and uncomplicated; but many ordinary people, and sometimes some of educated ones find it hard to understand some of his ballades because of different linguistic combinations and scientific terms he used in them. although, what makes ...

Storytelling capabilities are vital aspect of a tour guide. In this paper, we present a mobile tour guide that emulates a real guide’s behaviour by presenting stories based on the user’s interests, its own interests, its belief and its current memory activation. This research moves away from the concept of a guide that recites facts about places or events towards a guide that utilises improvisa...