Story-telling can be a powerful means of enriching the whole learning experience. Margaret Parkin, speaking at the HRD 2001 conference will explain how the storytelling process can increase the brain’s potential and create a more valuable learning event.
She argues that by mixing fantasy and fiction with fact, course participants are able to retain much more of what they have learned. Story-telling also relaxes the learner and makes them more receptive to alternative ways of thinking. Whilst story-telling (done well) has many potential uses, Parkin warns of the dangers of going too far and of using stories without a purpose. “The story has to be relevant to the audience and their learning needs.”
Story-telling has some similarity to the management fable books pioneered by Ken Blanchard (One Minute Manager) – another exhibitor here at HRD 2001.
And if you want to catch up more on story-telling approaches, Dave Snowden ‘The father of organisational story-telling’ is speaking at the H.O.T. Event during the Innovation in Training Day on 26 June in Birmingham.
She argues that by mixing fantasy and fiction with fact, course participants are able to retain much more of what they have learned. Story-telling also relaxes the learner and makes them more receptive to alternative ways of thinking. Whilst story-telling (done well) has many potential uses, Parkin warns of the dangers of going too far and of using stories without a purpose. "The story has to be relevant to the audience and their learning needs."
Story-telling has some similarity to the management fable books pioneered by Ken Blanchard (One Minute Manager) - another exhibitor here at HRD 2001.
And if you want to catch up more on story-telling approaches, Dave Snowden 'The father of organisational story-telling' is speaking at the H.O.T. Event during the Innovation in Training Day on 26 June in Birmingham.
