Areas of learning and Experinece. 2
What are the Benefits of Storytelling and can Storytelling be used in Primary Education? Social co-operation was key for survival many thousands of years ago. This was achieved through storytelling. (Y. Harrai, 2011:36). Large scale human co-operation is based on myths, legends and religion, all of which are forms of storytelling; it's written into our genome! (Y. Harrai, 2011:36). Oral storytelling is an activity that can be said to be hardwired into us, it acts as an organiser of all the experiences and exchanges we encounter in the world. (Bruner, 1990). It is believed that people have an internal readiness to organise their experiences into narrative form. (Bruner, 1990) . However, despite this there is little oral storytelling consistently in schools. (Alexander, 2012). 'We dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticise, construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative. In order to rea...