The importance of stories

This article is adapted from a keynote address given at the second national conference of the National Association of Scholars, held in New York City from June 8 through June 10, 1990.     

The method of empathy-based stories

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the processes of the method of empathy-based stories (MEBS) and illustrates the ways in which MEBS facilitates storytelling and narration. In MEBS, the participants narrate stories based on the frames and prompts provided by the researcher, and two different versions of the frame story offer variations in the story elements. This variation enables the researcher to study how the stories change when one element is varied – an idea that imitates traditional experimental research. MEBS is well-suited for examining the informants’ perceptions, reasoning, expectations, and values regarding a specific phenomenon or experience. Additionally, MEBS enables researchers to map out a research area, because the stories might provide new and unexpected insights into the topic. In this paper, we present the history of MEBS, outline how to design and implement MEBS research, discuss the advantages and limitations of the method, and conclude by exploring some methodological possibilities.     

Living the stories we tell: The sociopolitical context of enacting teaching stories

This article draws from two separate classroom-based studies of early career teachers that yielded overlapping findings about the diminished opportunities teachers and teacher educators have to construct sophisticated stories about the complexities of classroom life and the ongoing process of learning to teach. The teachers' stories represent the intersection of research, policy, and practice, illuminating contradictions between teachers' beliefs about teaching and what they were able to enact in their classrooms. These findings may be leveraged to support teacher educators to support teachers to create coherent narrative identities that help them creatively respond to problems of practice and contextual constraints.     

Making stories mean; making meaning from stories: The value of literature for children

is the author of numerous books and articles on the study and teaching of Children's Literature, including the forthcomingRepresenting Native Peoples in Children's Literature (Oryx Press).     

寓言故事

两棵树的故事；鲶鱼效应；饺子尖；青蛙被煮熟了[编者按]     

Overcoming problems in doctoral writing through the use of visualisations: telling our stories

Doctoral students experience many challenges on the long journey towards completion. Common problems include: synthesising data, working at a conceptual level, clarifying the relationship of the parts of the thesis to the whole, finding a voice and completing a viva successfully. Few authors have addressed the use of visualisations to meet these challenges. This paper focuses on the use of visualisations in doctoral writing. It presents narratives about seven ways that visualisations can help students to make breakthroughs in their writing, namely, as an organiser of the relationships of the parts of the thesis to the whole, a trigger for peer discourse, a vehicle for conceptual work, a metaphor to express key concepts, a trigger for professional development, a visual aid for the viva and as a prompt for freedrawing and freewriting.     

FUNNY stories

A lot of boys and girls in western countries are wearing the same kinds of clothes, and many of them have a long hair, so it is often difficult to tell whether they are boys or girls.     

《霍桑探案》与《福尔摩斯探案》比较论

《霍桑探案》与《福尔摩斯探案》是中西经典侦探小说的代表,而前者是在学习模仿后者的基础上植根中国近现代社会生活、融合民族文化、社会心理而形成的。本文既详细分析了《霍桑探案》对《福尔摩斯探案》的模仿与借鉴,又指出其民族特色、独创性和重要意义。     

The need for birth stories on perinatal pain

Perinatal pain can be experienced by both mothers and infants. In this column, the author encourages readers to view an article by Gayle Page featured in this issue of the journal. Page's article shows the importance of protecting infants from unnecessary pain. The column author also points out that birth stories show the benefit of supporting women as they meet the challenges of a normal birth.     

管理故事六则

一位老板向我诉苦说，他的公司管理极为不善。我应约而往，到公司上下走动了一回，心中便有了底。     

Couples sharing stories

Some ways in which shared stories are begun and told are described using conversation analysis. Tellings shared by two persons who participated together in the events to be narrated display how coparticipants encounter and resolve the problems of having two potential tellers, and a “knowing” recipient present. The stories examined are begun with a three‐part series of turns: a “remote” approach, a forwarding, and a ratification of the forwarding. The body of the telling includes techniques which involve the knowing recipient in the telling without necessarily challenging the current teller's role as teller. Implications are drawn for the study of how pairs of persons “do” their relationship in public.     

小故事中的大道理

1国王与3个儿子A Kingand his threesons很久以前,有一位年老的国王,他决定不久后就将王位传给3个儿子中的一个。一天国王把儿子们叫到跟前说:"我老了,决定把王位传给你们兄弟中的一个,但你们都要到外面去游历一年。一年后     

管理寓言6则

你怎么看一个人，那人可能会因你而有所变，你看他是宝贵的，他就是宝贵的。一份尊重和爱心，常会产生意想不到的善果，所以朋友们，不妨用心地看待这个世界，用心地去尊重每一个人及自己，你将会发现，自己及周遭的人都有着无穷的潜力。     

新时代背景下讲好中国故事路径探究

新时代背景下,讲好中国故事是中国走向世界、走近世界舞台中央的重要一步,已经成为国内和国际社会高度关注的共同话题。坚持从故事内容、话语体系、讲述方式三个路径入手讲中国故事,能够有效增强中国故事的说服力、感染力和认同度,让中国故事在世界各国落地生根。     

两个韩国故事的跨文化启示

希丁克的故事 大家都知道2002年日韩足球世界杯,韩国队打入四强,震惊世界,一鸣惊人。韩国队的球员成了国家英雄,韩国队荷兰籍教练希丁克(GuusHiddink)成为韩国人的偶像。韩国总统金大中为希丁克授予了蓝龙奖章,这是韩国为体育界人士颁发的最高级别的奖章。其他教练组成员以及23名韩国队球员也被授予了奖章。随后金大中总统又向希丁克颁发了荣誉公民证书,使他成为韩国有史以来第一位被授予荣誉公民奖励的外籍人士。无疑,希丁克成为韩国历史上最受欢迎的外国人。