ACEP - 2 Stories are about life

The other day Annette (another teacher doing the course) and I had lunch to discuss some of the ideas that had been put forward last week. We looked at the stories in the work book: A Gammon Dreaming Story, The Whale Song and Jinni.
It is good when you can sit and talk to some one about common ideas.
The main theme is the connectedness of the people to the land and how stories are used to pass on things to the next generation - some times without the young person realising it till later. Remove the story - remove the very essence of the culture.
Anyway, yesterday Michael Nelson posted a thing about a great paper about story centred curriculum by Roger Schank. (read about the dragonslayer course). It is about using stories to deliver courses that relate to the outcomes that students require. Great that people are thinking about this as being educationally sound - a few thousand years after other cultures started the same.


Book of the day: Blue Mountains Dreaming: The Aboriginal Heritage Edited by Eugene Stockton