Story Proof
By Kendall F. Haven. 2007
160 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Like Stephen Krashen's important work inThe Power of Reading,Story Proofcollects and analyzes the research that validates the importance of story, story reading, and storytelling to the brain development and education of children and adults. Accomplished researcher and storyteller Kendall Haven, establishes the need for understanding the research findings in neural psychology and brain development and the value of a common definition of story if one is to fully grasp the importance and necessity of story to the development of the human mind. To support his case, he reviews a wealth of research from storytellers, teachers, and others who have experienced the power of story firsthand. The author has collected anecdotal experiences from over 100 performing storytellers and from 1,800 story practitioners (mostly teachers) who have made extensive use of stories. He has read more than 150 qualitative and quantitative research studies that discuss the effectiveness of stories and/or storytelling for one or more specific applications (education, organizational management, knowledge management, medical and narrative therapy, etc.). Forty of these studies were literature reviews and comparative studies including analysis of over 1,000 studies and descriptive articles. He has also gathered research evidence from his own story performances for total audiences of over 4 million and from conducting story writing workshops with 200,000 students and 40,000 teachers.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence
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Citations in the corpus
- How Learning about Scientists' Struggles Influences Students' Interest and Learning in Physics (2012, background): “…a scientist’s personal narratives, anecdotes, self-reflections, or life stories are valuable resources to inspire science learning (Eshach, 2009; Haven, 2007; Klopfer, 1966; Martin & Brouwer, 1991, 1993; McKinney & Michalovic, 2004; Milne, 1998; Rowcliffe, 2004; Solomon, 2002; Stinner, 1995;…”
- Stories vs. facts: triggering emotion and action-taking on climate change (2019, methodology): “We adopt Haven’s (2007) definition of story: “a detailed, character-based narration of a character’s struggles to overcome obstacles and reach an important goal … a framework and way of structuring information” (Haven 2007, p. 79).”