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Title Life lessons through storytelling : children's exploration of ethics / Donna Eder with Regina Holyan ; foreword by Gregory Cajete
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 168 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword by Gregory Cajete; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Strengthening Community through Storytelling; 3. Drawing on Oral Traditions for a Contemporary Storytelling Event; 4. Of Fables and Children; 5. "The Wolf Really Wasn't Wicked": Ethical Complexities and "Troubled" Students; 6. Rabbit Tales (Tails): Kenyan Stories with Multiple Meanings (with Tiffani Saunders); 7. "It's Hard to Admit, But Sometimes You Get Jealous": Lessons from the Hyena (with Oluwatope Fashola); 8. The Next Stage: Putting It into Practice; 9. Coming Full Circle: Cross-Cultural Lessons
Summary Storytelling empowers children to engage in discussions; explore ideas about power, respect, community, fairness, equality, and justice; and help frame their understanding of complex ethical issues within a society. In Life Lessons through Storytelling, Donna Eder interviews elementary students and presents their responses to stories from different cultures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Storytelling.
Social ethics.
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Social ethics
Storytelling
Form Electronic book
Author Cajete, Gregory, 1952-
Eder, Donna, 1951-
Holyan, Regina
LC no. 2010008462
ISBN 9780253004680
0253004683
0253222443
9780253222442
1282818414
9781282818415
9786612818417
6612818417