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Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
Julia Christensen (Ed.)
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Description for Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
Paperback. Explores how storytelling engages and builds new interconnections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. Focuses on the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and other ways of knowing, and how researchers have embraced narrative and story as a part of their methodologies. Editor(s): Christensen, Julia; Szabo-Jones, Lisa. Num Pages: 155 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 269.
Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and extends into other ways of knowing in works where scholars have embraced narrative and story as a part of their research approach.
Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and extends into other ways of knowing in works where scholars have embraced narrative and story as a part of their research approach.
In the first section, Storytelling to Understand, authors draw on both theoretical and empirical work to examine storytelling as a way of knowing. In the second section, Storytelling to Share, authors demonstrate the power ... Read more
The result is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue that yields important insights in terms of qualitative research methods, language and literacy, policy-making, human-environment relationships, and healing. This book is intended for scholars, artists, activists, policymakers, and practitioners who are interested in storytelling as a method for teaching, cross-cultural understanding, community engagement, and knowledge exchange.
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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771122191
SKU
V9781771122191
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99-15
About Julia Christensen (Ed.)
Julia Christensen is a geographer and creative writer born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on the ancestral homelands of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Northern Governance and Public Policy at Memorial University. She was previously a Trudeau Foundation Scholar. Christopher Cox is an assistant professor of Indigenous and Minority Language Issues ... Read more
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