Storytelling has endangered status in UK schools, partly due to a huge emphasis on ‘active learning’.
The technology and rapid pace of critical care in hospital can often erase the patient experience. Opportunities for patient storytelling can transform health care.
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When patients, doctors and nurses have the opportunity to share their experiences of hospital intensive care, the resulting dialogue can be transformative.
Members of the James Bay Cree gather around the fire as part of a week-long celebration called ‘wellness week,’ aimed at improving personal health and wellness in their community in northern Québec.
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Like many Indigenous groups around the world, the James Bay Cree of northern Québec have a disproportionately high rate of diabetes. They’re facing it down with a decidedly Indigenous solution.
Fairy tales can be brutal, violent, sexual and laden with taboo. But they are are excellent narratives with which to think through a range of human experiences: from disappointment, and fear to envy and grief.
John Fekner’s art warned others of toxins poisoning the planet.
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Robust scientific experiments are objective and separated from human influence. But the way we think about and connect with science can present beautiful stories.
People with autism sometimes struggle to tell stories, but there are ways parents can help.
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People tell each other stories every day about the things they’ve seen and done. For many children with autism, this kind of personal narrative doesn’t come easily. Here’s how parents can help.
US president Donald Trump has mastered the art of political storytelling.
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The 1980s cult show Fat Tulip’s Garden fuelled the creativity of its young viewers. But in a digital age, are children less exposed to this kind of absurdist, performative storytelling?
Does this rock painting, featuring a long, white gun, depict first contact? Is it a work of history?
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Australian history is already a hotly contested discipline but is it time to broaden our definitions of the canon? Might an indigenous rock painting or a novel or a poem constitute a work of history?
Isaac Newton’s portrait. What can students learn from his life?
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