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6 thoughts on ““New” Research”
So true,
I took a US history class at a community college a few years ago and the professor taught it entirely through telling stories. It was riveting, compelling, and fascinating to hear all the stories about the presidents and the american history. I never was bored, learned so much and will never forget that professor or the stories. I think potentially everything could be learned using narratives.
I think of a story as a container, something a bit like Mary Poppins’ suitcase, full of words and structures and images and meanings. Once the kids have the story, remembering the bits and pieces is no problem.
It should be noted that those memory wizards use “memory palace tours” to organise their data: they imagine a walk (narrative) through a house (pattern), during which they “see” their memory items associated with both a certain sequence and location.
Also interesting: ALL cultures historically transmitted pretty much ALL knowledge via stories (or doing activities, like hunting or gathering medicinal herbs, in context). Only literacy– which arrived, as Lévi-Strauss noted, with slavery– upset this. Plato’s Republic (6) articulates the conflict between a Greece leaving the narrative and entering the abstract age.
In the Irish traditional music I play in the pub, which was and still is generally passed along via listening, the “tunes” (reels or jigs without words) often come in “sets” (groups of 2-4 tunes) which are played in order. People play the “Donegal” or the “Siesta” set. The sets are a way to organise the tunes to make them easier to remember.
Loved it — I had the guts to send the link to all my principals today, and I told them that this is how I teach French and that this is why my students can pass the French AP after only 3 years of French.
Thanks to this blog I feel so much more courageous. Wow!
–Leigh Anne in Sunny CA
You go girl!
I’ m so proud of you Leigh Anne. Je te tire mon chapeau!
I want to hear what they all said. May be I’ll do the same thing, although I think they all knows I teach with stories already …..
More ammunition for us all. We need to keep all this research in a place, accessible when we need to access it to educate our administrators or whomever else.
Marybeth, make sure you give this one to your new superintendent and new principal.
Ben could you cross reference this article under the administrator/Teacher/Parent reeducation as well as research category?
Thank you!
oops, typo, I meant they all know . I guess the third person singular is a late acquired item, very late in my case, (jk) haha!