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This book offers insight and lessons learned from two pilot studies which used interactive digital narrative (IDN) as educational interventions to effect positive change regarding social issues, looking into interdisciplinary approaches to research and education methods, combining arts and science methodologies and science communication.

In welchem Verhältnis stehen Lernen und Erzählen? Wie können sich Lernende das Erfahrene durch eigenes Erzählen erschließen, und wie verknüpfen und verändern sie ihre sowie fremde Erfahrungen über das Erzählen? Diesen und anderen Fragen widmen sich die Beiträge des Bandes aus Sicht der Volkskunde, Soziologie, Literaturwissenschaft, Narratologie, Fremdsprachendidaktik, Geschichtsdidaktik, Physikdidaktik, Heil- und Sonderpädagogik, Grundschulpädagogik sowie der Erziehungswissenschaft.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Toward a Transmedial Narratology -- Part 1. Storyworlds across Media -- 2 The Storyworld as a Transmedial Concept -- 3 Narrative Representation across Media -- Part 2. Narrators across Media -- 4 The Narrator as a Transmedial Concept -- 5 Narratorial Representation across Media -- Part 3. Subjectivity across Media -- 6 Subjectivity as a Transmedial Concept -- 7 Subjective Representation across Media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

published_or_final_version ; English Studies and Comparative Literature ; Master ; Master of Philosophy

Telling true stories : creative approaches to bringing nonfiction to life / Dean Jobb -- "I like to give things a story" : one teacher's view of teaching mathematics / Laurinda Brown and Maria Dolores Lozano (Lolis) -- Learning to play : stories of learning mathematics, language and music / Sarah Eagle -- "Where are you going? Where have you been?" : foundations and methods for revitalising story reading for children / Phyllis Hastings -- Oral history and storytelling : reflection on an alternative approach of teaching history / Wai-ling Wong -- Storytelling as a research tool in a user-centred design process / Denise Dantas -- Digital storytelling on life-cycle websites / Rasa Raciunaite-Pauzuoliene -- Digital storytelling : possible applications in an open distance e-learning environment / Leona Ungerer -- A new horizon of non-fiction storytelling : the use of virtual reality and gaming techniques / Nina Dvorko -- Visual storytelling of Japaneseness in manga, anime and Japanese film / Shunichi Ueno -- Stories from different sides : reflections on narrative-based dialogues in addressing the legacies of apartheid wars / Theresa Edlmann -- Invisible stories : loss, recovery and the rhetoric of war / Welby Ings -- The place of story and storytelling in clinical contexts / Elizabeth Mary Cummings -- Singing the world : narrative medicine and storied existence / Sarah Garvey and Rachel Chung -- Can TV and film help us to understand suicide better? / Gavin Fairbairn -- "People insult me - oh my!" : reflections on Jola women's story-songs in rural West Africa / Joanna Davidson -- East African stories of love : challenging perspectives / Brendon Briggs -- Cultural appropriation and the telling of wisdom stories / Keven Fletcher -- Eventually all of the citrus trees died : stories of love and loss from a village in Cyprus / Stephanie Elisabeth Jacobs -- Interactive/transmedia storytelling as cultural narrative : stories of family, place and identity / Melissa Lee Price and Michael R. Ogden -- Sharing, saving and studying life stories : diverse perspectives / Cheryl Svensson, Paulette Stevens, Sarah White, Mary O'Brien Tyrrell and Valerie Perry -- Telling it as it is : women as protagonists in autobiographies / Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu -- Mothering on kibbutz : a personal/communal story / Nancy Peled -- Narrativisation of identity in the poetry as life writing of Lithuanian women emigres / Irena Ragaisiene -- Sharing stories : an interactive, interdisciplinary approach / Tracy Ann Hayes -- Years of crossing the Atlantic : a nineteenth-century British travel writing scholar dialogues with her travellers / Caroline M. Kisiel -- Representations of time and space in advertising stories / Madalina Moraru -- Narration as a source for studies in ethic systems : an historical, psychological perspective / Szymon Czerkawski -- Reinstating narrative : the role of stories in Claudio Magris's post-postmodernist historical novels / Remko Smid -- "I so regret the barograph..." as we make and use objects, so they form and mould us / Prue Bramwell-Davis -- Looking towards the future and continuing the conversations / Tracy Ann Hayes, Theresa Edlmann and Laurinda Brown.

"This book presents an innovative approach to research in International Relations by examining twelve theoretical contributions to the field as competing narrative bids. It demonstrates the pervasive nature of story-telling and considers narratives as a means of causal explanation in the human sciences. By introducing four classic literary plot structures with their respective characters, events, moods and denouements, the book divides IR literature into tragedies, romances/epics, comedies and ironic/satirical stories. For each plot type, its characteristic features, logic and appeal are first reprised through some well-known prose examples before being employed in the analysis of major IR texts. King Lear, for example, helps bring out the tragic logic of Politics among Nations, and Sleeping Beauty demonstrates the romantic appeal inherent in The End of History. Twelfth Night is used to approach The Transformation of Political Community as a comedy, and A Modest Proposal paves the way for the examination of Bananas, Beaches and Bases as irony/satire. Rather than assess the absolute merits and shortcomings of the competing theories, the book discusses the relative strengths and weaknesses of stories that adhere to different plots in giving meaning to actors and events in the international arena. Discussing a broad range of theories, this text will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations and World Politics, including various subcommunities such as specialists in peace research and Feminist IR"--

"Narratives of Storytelling Across Cultures demonstrates how meaning found within interpersonal communication is not universal across all cultures. Miscommunication can occur when the foundations of cultural meaning within stories, as told socially and within media, vary among different cultures. Positioned within the communication and media field, this book connects issues of societal tension and political battles to media portrayals, social communication events, and power dynamics that result when people with different meanings systems attempt to negotiate "truth" among their competing narratives. After establishing the theoretical foundation of the book, contributors provide specific case studies that demonstrate underlying cultural components and complexities that lead to these issues. Tony R. DeMars and Gabriel Tait have assembled contributors with research, experience, and understanding of intercultural communication challenges in different social groups, allowing the book to take on a broader scope of intercultural communication. Scholars of communication, conflict resolution, political science, sociology, and media studies will find this book particularly useful."-- Back cover

How have developments in literary and cultural theory transformed our understanding of narrative? What has happened to narrative in the wake of poststructuralism? What is the role and function of narrative in the contemporary world? In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores these central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Postmodern Narrative Theory, Second Edition: Establishes direct links between the workings of fictional narratives and those of the non-fictional world Charts the transition in narrative theory from its formalist beginnings, through deconstruction, towards its current concerns with the social, cultural and cognitive uses of narrative Explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern theory more closely Presents detailed illustrative readings of known literary texts such as Stevensons Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Conrads Heart of Darkness, and now features a new chapter on Coetzees Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man. Approachable and stimulating, this is an essential introduction for anyone studying postmodernism, the theory of narrative or contemporary fiction--