SO131 Storytelling

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
PaedDr. Marie Pavlovská, Ph.D. (lecturer), MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D. (deputy)
MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Dana Jakubjanská, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
- Full-time and part-time studies are taught in the form of a 1.5-day workshop.
- Students are divided into seminar groups. - 100% participation.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to acquire the basic knowledge connected with the phenomenon of narrative, the development of practical skills connected with narrative performance in the act of living narrative - following the use of work with the story in the practice of social pedagogue. As part of the course, learners will participate in the Living Libraries program.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- describe the main features of working with a story with people with a difficult life situation;
- explain the main principles of the living library method;
- to use (tell) a story following the practice of a social pedagogue.
Syllabus
  • Overview of narrative topics: - Live narration - a special situation of communication
  • - Community Story - Narrator, Audience, Story
  • - Story - construction, construction, conventions
  • - Story written / narrated
  • - Material vers. Work / story vers. Its recovery in the mode now and here
  • - Imagination, imagination, fantasy - in narrative practice
  • - The narrator's imaging tools - multi-layered communication
  • - Narrative as a craft - craftsman, tools, procedures, material, work
  • - Creative work on the theme of the story, its processing for live narration
  • - Live Liberary.
Literature
    required literature
  • Plachá, Z. (eds.) Živá knihovna jako metoda výuky aneb vzdělávání příběhem. ARPOK, o.p.s. D z https://eshop.arpok.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/%C5%BDiv%C3%A1-knihovna-jako-metoda-v%C3%BDuky-aneb-vzd%C4%9Bl%C3%A1v%C3%A1n%C3%AD-p%C5%99%C3%ADb%C4%9Bhem.pdf
  • VORÁČOVÁ, Barbora. Storytelling, aneb, Cesta do příběhu. Vydání první. V Praze: Pasparta, 2022, 139 stran. ISBN 9788088429517. info
    not specified
  • GITNER, Seth. Multimedia storytelling for digital communicators in a multiplatform world. Edited by Thomas R. Kennedy. Second edition. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023, xxxii, 512. ISBN 9781138332560. info
  • DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. NLP - Storytelling techniques for communication and presentation skills. 2009. URL info
  • MCDRURY, Janice and Maxine ALTERIO. Learning through storytelling in higher education : using reflection & experience to improve learning. Sterling, VA: Kogan Page, 2003, 198 s. ISBN 0749440384. info
  • OCHS, Elinor and Lisa CAPPS. Living narrative : creating lives in everyday storytelling. 1st Harvard University Press. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002, xii, 352. ISBN 0674010108. info
  • Virtual storytelling : using virtual reality technologies for storytelling : International Conference ICVS 2001, Avignon, France, September 27-28, 2001 : proceedings. Edited by Olivier Balet - Gérard Subsol - Patrice Torguet. Berlin: Springer, 2001, xi, 211. ISBN 3540426116. info
  • CASSADY, Marsh. Creating stories for storytelling. San José: Resource Publications, 1991, viii, 157. ISBN 0893902055. info
  • MAGUIRE, Jack. Creative storytelling : choosing, inventing, and sharing tales for children. Illustrated by Dale Gottlieb. New expanded ed. Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon, 1985, 200 s. ISBN 0938756354. info
Teaching methods
excercises
Assessment methods
credit, 100% participation
Náhradní absolvování
In the case of a study abroad trip, it is possible to take the course in an alternative form. The learner will study compulsory literature from the syllabus and write excerpts from it, as well as attend and reflect in writing on the living library session. He/she further discusses his/her excerpts and the living library experience with the course supervisor.
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/ped/jaro2025/SO131/index.qwarp
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 1,5 dne.
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