Story Proof
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Story Proof

The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Story Proof

The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story

About this book

Like Stephen Krashen's important work in The Power of Reading, Story Proof collects and analyzes the research that validates the importance of story, story reading, and storytelling to the brain development and education of children and adults. Accomplished researcher and storyteller Kendall Haven, establishes the need for understanding the research findings in neural psychology and brain development and the value of a common definition of story if one is to fully grasp the importance and necessity of story to the development of the human mind. To support his case, he reviews a wealth of research from storytellers, teachers, and others who have experienced the power of story firsthand. The author has collected anecdotal experiences from over 100 performing storytellers and from 1, 800 story practitioners (mostly teachers) who have made extensive use of stories. He has read more than 150 qualitative and quantitative research studies that discuss the effectiveness of stories and/or storytelling for one or more specific applications (education, organizational management, knowledge management, medical and narrative therapy, etc.). Forty of these studies were literature reviews and comparative studies including analysis of over 1, 000 studies and descriptive articles. He has also gathered research evidence from his own story performances for total audiences of over 4 million and from conducting story writing workshops with 200, 000 students and 40, 000 teachers.

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Table of contents

  1. STORY PROOF
  2. CONTENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION: IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT
  4. PART 1 STORY SMARTS
  5. CHAPTER 1 OPENING ARGUMENTS: MORE THAN YOU IMAGINED
  6. CHAPTER 2 SO, WHAT IS A STORY?
  7. CHAPTER 3 STARTING AT THE TOP: A NOD TO THE NOODLE
  8. CHAPTER 4 NOGGIN KNOW-HOW: THE MIND IS WHAT THE BRAIN DOES
  9. CHAPTER 5 MIND MECHANICS
  10. CHAPTER 6 THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
  11. CHAPTER 7 THAT REMINDS ME OF A STORY: A BETTER DEFINITION
  12. PART 2 STORY PROOF
  13. CHAPTER 8 A PEEK AT THE ANECDOTES
  14. CHAPTER 9 WE’VE REACHED THE RESEARCH RESULTS
  15. CHAPTER 10 THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING: PUTTING STORIES TO WORK FOR YOU
  16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  17. INDEX
  18. ABOUT THE AUTHOR