Speaking Out

Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-96660-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within storytelling and creative drama during the K-12 years.

For the past four years, Jack Zipes has worked with the Neighborhood Bridges Program of the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, taking his storytelling techniques into inner-city schools. Speaking Out is in part a record of the transformations storytelling can work on the minds and lives of young people. But it is also a vivid and exhilarating demonstration of a different kind of education - one built from deep inside each child.

Speaking Out is a book for storytellers, educators, parents, and anyone who cares about helping kids find within themselves the keys to imagination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zipes, Jack

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsProloguePrefaceAcknowledgmentsThe Necessity of Storytelling in Education1. The Utopian Tendency of Storytelling: Turning the World Upside Down2. The Wisdom and Folly of Storytelling3. How Storytellers Can Help Change Education in Changing Times: Stealing from the Rich to Build Community BridgesNeighborhood Bridges4. The Neighborhood Bridges Project5. A Typical Bridges Session with Untypical Games and Learning Spreading Tales, Opening Minds - Sample Sessions6. Fairy Tales, Animal Fables, Trickster Stories, and Peace Tales7. Legends, Myths, Superhero Stories, Tall Tales, Family Stories, and Utopian Tales8. Creative Drama and the Crossing Bridges FestivalThe Importance of Children's Theater9. Children's Theater in the Age of GlobalizationEndnotesBibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jack Zipes has published and translated over a dozen volumes on and about stories, fairy tales, and storytelling. Cofounder of the Neighborhood Bridges Project, he is one of the most widely respected scholars of fairy tales and a passionate advocate for storytelling in education. He is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota.