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- 1. Story Science : Science and Literature Sally Howard: sally.howard@warwick.ac.uk or sally2how@yahoo.com
- 2. Pupil Progress TS2 • “The (new) national curriculum … helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement… there is time and space in the school day and in each week, term and year to range beyond the NC specifications…” framework document 2013 p5
- 3. “The most elusive period of our lives occurs from birth to about the age of five. Mysterious and otherworldly, infancy and early childhood are surrounded later in life by a curious amnesia, broken by flashes of memory that come upon us unbidden, for the most part, with no coherent or reliable context. With their sensorial, almost cellular evocations, these memories seem to reside more in the body than the mind; yet they are central to our sense of who we are to ourselves.” Michael Greenberg
- 4. Children have everyday theories of the world— everyday ideas about psychology, biology, and physics. These theories are like scientific theories but they are largely unconscious rather than conscious, and they are coded in children’s brains, instead of being written down on paper or presented at scientific conferences. The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik
- 6. The young brain The prefrontal lobe helps adults focus and block out distraction. It is undeveloped in young children, and doesn’t fully form in most people until they are in their twenties. Children don’t fully acquire the ability to concentrate internally until at least the age of five. What arouses them is what is in front of their eyes and ears. The occipital cortex is highly active in infant brains. It gives attention to the visual world, and connects with the parietal cortex, which helps adjustment to new events.
- 7. MRI shows both these cortices light up in adults while they are watching a film and the prefrontal lobe goes dormant. This leads to the suspension of disbelief and passively reception of novel visual stimuli. Is this what it is like to be a baby?
- 8. Very young brains are sensitive to statistical patterns. The learning of language in its earliest stages involves the statistical prediction of which sounds are most likely to follow one another - an unconscious exercise in probability theory.
- 9. Changing the brain requires the correct neurotransmitters, and those are there when a person is curious, is predicting what will happen next and is emotionally engaged.
- 10. Jonathan Gottschall “The Storytelling Animal” A unified theory of storytelling Storytelling evolved to aid survival – it is hard wired It helps us to navigate life’s complex problems The more you are absorbed in a story the more it changes behaviour
- 11. Jonathan Gottschall “The Storytelling Animal” We spend a great deal of time in fictional worlds - daydreams, novels, life narratives. The dominant themes of story are ‘’horrorscapes’’ full of conflict and struggle. Trouble, Gottschall argues, is the universal grammar of stories. “Neverland is our evolutionary niche, our special habitat.”
- 12. Book Trust www.booktrust.org.uk Fairy Tales Gender Divide and Reading habits survey 2013 •30% of parents choose not to read fairy tales at all with their children. Reason,: • 51% of these parents said their child was too old, (Of those parents who said their child was too old for fairy tales, their children were mainly aged seven and older) •23% said their child was too young, •17% said their child simply didn’t like fairy tales.. (Of those parents who said their child didn’t like fairy tales, they were overwhelmingly more likely to be referring to a son than a daughter).
- 13. “Some parents and carers feel that fairy tales are not relevant any more, and forget that these magical stories can help their child solve problems, develop emotional resilience and make sense of the world around them. Fairy tales have been shared for generations and can inspire children to become readers and storytellers for life.” Justine Hodgkinson Head of Booktrust
- 14. Stories let brains simulate problem solving, decision making and learning the rules of the world. Karl Popper wrote “simulation of the future allows our hypotheses to die in our stead.”
- 15. • Types of cognitive reasoning: seriation – putting things in order time space continuum; prediction/hypothesising seeking patterns cause and effect
- 16. Bibliography • Adey, P., Robertson, A., Venville, G. Lets Think. (2001) A programme for developing thinking for 5 & 6 year olds. nferNelson • Book Trust,(2010) Learning about children’s books and poetry www.booktrust.org.uk accessed 3/8/2013 • Geake, J, G. (2009) The Brain at School. Open University Press • Gopnik, A (2009) The Philosophical Baby.What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth Love and the Meaning of Life. • Gopnik, A., Meltzoff, A., Kuhl, (2001) P. How Babies Think. Phonix.. Gottschell, J. (2012) The Story Telling Animal. How Stories Make Us Human. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • Lucus, B.,Claxton, G., Spencer, E. (2013) Expansive Education. Teaching learners for the real world. McGraw Hill
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- Good leaders use stories like this on almost a daily basis. They tell stories that “cast” them and their organizations as agents of change, rather than defenders of the status quo. As a leader, you cannot eliminate fear, abolish uncertainty or avoid the prospect of change for your company. But you can leverage these emotional navigational stakes to your greatest advantage by telling a purposeful story. So what exactly makes an effective story? A story is a vehicle that puts facts into an emotional context. The information in a story doesn’t just sit there as it would in a list or data dump. Instead, it’s built to create suspense and engage your listener in its call to action. Facts and figures are memorable to computers, not to people. Research on memory conclusively shows that all the critical details, data, and analytics, are more effectively emotionalized and metabolized by the listener when they’re embedded in a story – and they become significantly more actionable. Storytelling about respect and trust (Danish): Stories let people decide for themselves – one of the great secrets of true influence. Other methods of influence – persuasion, bribery or charismatic appeal are push strategies – stories are pull strategy (c) Anette Simmons – “The Story Factor” When it comes to change, people don‘t believe in a new direction because they suspend their disbelief. They believe because they‘re actually seeing behaviour, action, and results that lead them to conclude that the program works. Good luck with your own story! Short URL & Title:Storytelling an important part of change management — http://www.torbenrick.eu/t/r/tll Bio Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Latest Posts Torben Rick Experienced senior executive, both at a strategic and operational level, with strong track record in developing, driving and managing business improvement and development, change management and turn-around. View full profile Related Posts Resistance to change in organisations is not necessarily a problemJune 26, 2013 Change management is a process, not an eventJune 24, 2013 Why change management needs to changeJune 19, 2013 Leave a Reply Name * Email * Website Privacy & Terms Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree Popular Posts 12 reasons why people resist change What is the relationship between culture and strategy 20 awesome quotes on change management 20 tips to improve employee engagement and performance Why most change management initiatives fail 10 key elements in creating a high performance culture Why change management needs to change Use storytelling to communicate your company’s values Organisational alignment is the glue for achieving better performance Developing a more open and collaborative culture Value creation in the future – creativity and continuous innovation The broadcast era has changed – social media is forcing transparency Do your employees believe in their company Measuring organisational alignment – You get what you measure Categories Tag cloud Business Improvement Change Management Collaborative Consumption Communication Corporate Culture Corporate Value Crisis Management Customer Relationship Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Disruptive Change Employee Engagement Innovation Leadership Marketing Organisational Alignment Organisational Development Performance Management Product Development Social Media Social Media Attack Social Media Failure Social Media Strategy Social Media Trend Strategy Value Creation Subscribe to newsletter To subscribe to my newsletter simply add your email below. A confirmation email will be sent to you! Search Translator Powered by Translate More than 31.000 have joined on LinkedIn <="" a="" width="110,height=60">
- There’s nothing new about storytelling. Long before we had books and newspapers, telephones and telegraphs and the internet and our ancestor’s sat around the fire and told stories. More than storytellers, we’re story consumers. So what exactly makes an effective story? A story is a vehicle that puts facts into an emotional context. The information in a story doesn’t just sit there as it would in a list or data dump. Instead, it’s built to create suspense and engage your listener in its call to action. Facts and figures are memorable to computers, not to people. Research on memory conclusively shows that all the critical details, data, and analytics, are more effectively emotionalized and metabolized by the listener when they’re embedded in a story – and they become significantly more actionable.
- Annette Simmons The Story Factor Cognitive pyschology …… and cognitve neuro science is finding the vidence to suppor r refute in terms of what the brain is observed to do using fmri
- A recent survey of over 1,000 people conducted by Opinium on behalf of Booktrust found that both children and parents show a traditional gender divide when choosing their favourite fairy tales. When asked to name their own favourite fairy tale, 32% of mums chose Cinderella and 30% of dads chose Jack and the Beanstalk. When asked to name their children’s favourites, the same tales came out top for their sons and daughters. 34% of those with daughters named Cinderella and 27% of parents with sons named Jack and the Beanstalk as the favourite. When asked about favourite characters, girls were also more likely to choose female characters, with four out of the top five choices being female. Boys were more likely to include ‘villains’ in their favourites, with the Troll from Three Billy Goats Gruff, the Big Bad Wolf from the Three Little Pigs and the wolf from Red Riding Hood all featuring in their top ten favourite characters. The Ugly Stepsisters were the least popular overall. The survey also found that 3 in 10 parents choose not to read fairy tales at all with their children. When prompted for a reason, 51% of these parents said their child was too old, 23% said their child was too young, and 17% said their child simply didn’t like fairy tales. Of those parents who said their child was too old for fairy tales, their children were mainly aged seven and older. Of those parents who said their child didn’t like fairy tales, they were overwhelmingly more likely to be referring to a son than a daughter.