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All our thinking happens in story form
May 15, 2020Nearly three decades ago, when I began to focus on narrative as a subject of my research, I was...
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Story, theatre and learning
March 29, 2020Last time, we took a look at narrative’s powerful combination of sequential structure, context and emotion. We saw how the...
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Structure, context and emotion—how narrative helps us learn and remember
March 2, 2020After writing the previous entry, I realized how much more there is to say about the power of narrative...
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Why we remember the stories (continued)
February 19, 2020Recently, when I decided to write something here about why narrative structures help people remember their school lessons, I...
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Why we remember the stories
February 9, 2020In a recent post, we saw that grade school and graduate school classrooms are similar in at least one...
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Narrative-based learning can work anywhere
February 3, 2020In the last post, we noted that narrative approaches to teaching are highly valued and praised by educators, regardless...
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Stories can make any lesson far more powerful
January 10, 2020In the previous post, we saw that story’s sequential flow is a significant element of its power as a...
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How narrative structure aids recall
December 28, 2019Last time, we visited two compelling arguments supporting the notion that narrative facilitates recall. First, stories slide naturally into...
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Why narrative stays so long in our minds
December 9, 2019My recent reflecting on how Paul Revere became a household name in the United States got me thinking once...
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Why we remember Paul Revere
November 24, 2019As I mentioned last time, American grade school children study in considerable detail the events leading up to their...