Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children

ISBN-13: 9780415966610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 296 str.

Jack Zipes

Opis

In Speaking Out, Zipes advanced a refreshing approach to helping children and adults tell stories. Without knowing how to tell stories, children cannot take charge of their lives, so they must learn how to speak out at home and act out in the public sphere to articulate their views and become responsible members of society. As in Speaking Out, Jack Zipes will draw upon his experience as a founder of a Minneapolis-based program that works with school-age children. Speaking Out will go further, laying out ways in which teachers and storytelling groups can foster the imaginative lives of children and their parents.

Recenzje

"Jack Zipes is one of our essential writers on storytelling past, present, and future. His work marks a happy and lasting marriage of prodigious scholarship and social commitment
." -- Joseph Sobol, author of The Storytellers' Journey
"A concise and very useful aid to storytelling." -- Publishers Weekly
"This is certainly thought provoking." -- Booklist
"This is a remarkable book, the best of the many books about storytelling that I have read." -- Journal of Educational Thought

Spis treści

Table of Contents Prologue Preface Acknowledgments The Necessity of Storytelling in Education 1. The Utopian Tendency of Storytelling: Turning the World Upside Down 2. The Wisdom and Folly of Storytelling 3. How Storytellers Can Help Change Education in Changing Times: Stealing from the Rich to Build Community Bridges Neighborhood Bridges 4. The Neighborhood Bridges Project 5. A Typical Bridges Session with Untypical Games and Learning Spreading Tales, Opening Minds - Sample Sessions 6. Fairy Tales, Animal Fables, Trickster Stories, and Peace Tales 7. Legends, Myths, Superhero Stories, Tall Tales, Family Stories, and Utopian Tales 8. Creative Drama and the Crossing Bridges Festival The Importance of Children's Theater 9. Children's Theater in the Age of Globalization Endnotes Bibliography

O autorze

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.