Alps StoryMaker
Using Fiction as a Resource for Accelerated Learning
Stephen Bowkett(Author)
Network Educational Press Ltd
Published on 1. December 2001
Book
Mixed media product
304 pages
978-1-85539-076-8 (ISBN)
Description
Stories are an important part of everyone's life. We all enjoy a good tale. But more importantly, narrative structures embody a powerful organising principle that allows us to make sense of the world - we don't talk of a person's 'life story' for nothing. Our own experiences and the strategies we use to learn from them are our most precious resource. ALPS StoryMaker, through the medium of creative fiction, offers a wide range of techniques and activities utilising children's enjoyment of fiction, and exploits the powerful dynamic of narrative structures to enable both students and teachers to practise the techniques of accelerated brain-based learning, and so fulfil their potential.
What the book offers: insights into the nature of creativity and how to be systematic in developing a creative attitude to generate useful ideas across a broad field of contexts; ways of raising awareness of and practising an extensive menu of thinking skills; strategies for using fiction as a resource for understanding and applying the principles of Accelerated Learning; techniques for processing information from any subject more effectively; activities which boost the 'intelligent behaviours' that characterise effective learners.
Stories are an important part of everyone's life. We all enjoy a good tale. But more importantly, narrative structures embody a powerful organising principle that allows us to make sense of the world - we don't talk of a person's 'life story' for nothing. Our own experiences and the strategies we use to learn from them are our most precious resource. ALPS StoryMaker, through the medium of creative fiction, offers a wide range of techniques and activities utilising children's enjoyment of fiction, and exploits the powerful dynamic of narrative structures to enable both students and teachers to practise the techniques of accelerated brain-based learning, and so fulfil their potential.
What the book offers: insights into the nature of creativity and how to be systematic in developing a creative attitude to generate useful ideas across a broad field of contexts; ways of raising awareness of and practising an extensive menu of thinking skills; strategies for using fiction as a resource for understanding and applying the principles of Accelerated Learning; techniques for processing information from any subject more effectively; activities which boost the 'intelligent behaviours' that characterise effective learners.
What the book offers: insights into the nature of creativity and how to be systematic in developing a creative attitude to generate useful ideas across a broad field of contexts; ways of raising awareness of and practising an extensive menu of thinking skills; strategies for using fiction as a resource for understanding and applying the principles of Accelerated Learning; techniques for processing information from any subject more effectively; activities which boost the 'intelligent behaviours' that characterise effective learners.
Stories are an important part of everyone's life. We all enjoy a good tale. But more importantly, narrative structures embody a powerful organising principle that allows us to make sense of the world - we don't talk of a person's 'life story' for nothing. Our own experiences and the strategies we use to learn from them are our most precious resource. ALPS StoryMaker, through the medium of creative fiction, offers a wide range of techniques and activities utilising children's enjoyment of fiction, and exploits the powerful dynamic of narrative structures to enable both students and teachers to practise the techniques of accelerated brain-based learning, and so fulfil their potential.
What the book offers: insights into the nature of creativity and how to be systematic in developing a creative attitude to generate useful ideas across a broad field of contexts; ways of raising awareness of and practising an extensive menu of thinking skills; strategies for using fiction as a resource for understanding and applying the principles of Accelerated Learning; techniques for processing information from any subject more effectively; activities which boost the 'intelligent behaviours' that characterise effective learners.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Stafford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85539-076-8 (9781855390768)
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Stephen Bowkett is a full-time writer of novels that span the age range and various genres, as well as a creative writing tutor and qualified hypnotherapist. He has 18 years' experience as a teacher of English. As a member of an advisory group to the national Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education he helped to discuss the nature of 'creativity' and translate basic definitions and principles into practical activities that teachers could use with pupils immediately, and easily, within the framework of the National Curriculum. ALPS StoryMaker is Steve's twenty-seventh published book.
Stephen Bowkett is a full-time writer of novels that span the age range and various genres, as well as a creative writing tutor and qualified hypnotherapist. He has 18 years' experience as a teacher of English. As a member of an advisory group to the national Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education he helped to discuss the nature of 'creativity' and translate basic definitions and principles into practical activities that teachers could use with pupils immediately, and easily, within the framework of the National Curriculum. ALPS StoryMaker is Steve's twenty-seventh published book.
Stephen Bowkett is a full-time writer of novels that span the age range and various genres, as well as a creative writing tutor and qualified hypnotherapist. He has 18 years' experience as a teacher of English. As a member of an advisory group to the national Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education he helped to discuss the nature of 'creativity' and translate basic definitions and principles into practical activities that teachers could use with pupils immediately, and easily, within the framework of the National Curriculum. ALPS StoryMaker is Steve's twenty-seventh published book.
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Content
Preface to the first edition; Introduction; Section 1 - The creative mind; Section 2 - The story process; Section 3 - Plotting; Section 4 - Character; Section 5 - Genre; Section 6 - Flexible text formats; Section 7 - The inner world of the writer; Section 8 - Visualisation; Section 9 - Storytelling; Bibliography; Index