Using storytelling to enhance student learning

This is a useful guidebook for the development of effective storytelling pedagogy.

Storytelling is one of these capabilities and when it is used in thoughtful, reflective and formalised ways, significant learning is possible (Clandinin and Connelly, 1998; McDrury and Alterio, 2002; McEwan and Egan, 1995; Pendlebury, 1995; and Witherell and Nodding, 1991).

Storytelling can: encourage cooperative activity, encompass holistic perspectives, value emotional realities, link theory to practice, stimulate students' critical thinking skills, capture complexities of situations, reveal multiple perspectives, make sense of experience, encourage self review and construct new knowledge.