Genre, Content, and Organization of Kindergarten Children's Oral Story Inventions
| Autor: | Jerry Aldridge, Eugene Geist |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Psychological Reports. 85:817-822 |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X 0033-2941 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.817 |
| Popis: | Summary.-This pilot investigation focused on the genre, contenr, and organization used in he oral story inventions of 10 African-American children from a kindergarten dass in an urban school system in the southeastern Unired States. After four days of instruction in storytelling through the use of fairy tales, the researcher asked each child to make up a story and tell it. The 10 children's stories were rape-recorded and transcribed. Content analysis indicated the children cold fantasy stories based on familiar themes, with a parenc often playing a role. The organization of the stories was a disjointed collection of juxtaposed sentences. Questions are raised as to the developmental, individual, and cultural variables which conrributed to these results. Before Western civilization had books, the oral tradition served the role of passing on information from one generation to the next. People would listen to stories and tell them to their children. Storytehg was the primary way people passed on traditions and culture. Today, the oral tradition is often viewed as a less dent form of communication (Magee & Sutton-Smith, 1983). In classrooms, writing activities occur more often than storytebg whch is not viewed as taking effort or promoting development (SuttonSmith, 1985); however. children who are engaged in oral storytehg can inform a teacher about their development. Further, storytelling can foster cognitive and affective development, particularly in young children. Few studies have been conducted on children's invented stories (Aldridge, Eddowes, Ewing, & Kuby, 1994). There have been many examinations of written retellings of stories (Boydston, 1992; Gambrell, Pfedfer, & Wilson, 1985; Morrow, 1986); however, few works have examined the oral stories invented by children. A child's made-up story can provide valuable insight into that child's cognitive, affective, and creative development (Man & Bertoia, 1992; Markharn, 1983; Sutton-Smith, 1985). This study investigated stories that kindergarten children composed after being told the Grimm (1993) version of selected tales. The Grimm versions were chosen because the literature suggests that they are the closest to the oral tradition (Zipes, 1988). |
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