Activating the heart : storytelling, knowledge sharing, and relationship

Book

Activating the heart : storytelling, knowledge sharing, and relationship / Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox, and Lisa Szabo-Jones, editors.

Christensen, Julia (Writer on homelessness), (editor.). Cox, Christopher, 1982- (editor.). Szabo-Jones, Lisa, 1969- (editor.).

Summary:

"'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 of stories to share knowledge and convey significant lessons, as well as to engage different audiences in knowledge exchange. The third section, Storytelling to Create, contains three poems and a short story that engage with storytelling as a means to produce or create knowledge, particularly through explorations of relationship to place. 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."-- From the rear cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781771122191
ISBN: 1771122196
Physical Description: xvii, 209 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Finding my way : emotions and ethics in community-based action research with indigenous communities / by Leonie Sandercock -- Notes from the underbridge / by Christine Stewart and Jacquie Leggatt -- Re-valuing code-switching : lessons from Kaska narrative performances / by Patrick Moore -- Art, heart, and health : experiences from northern British Columbia / by Kendra Mitchell-Foster and Sarah de Leeuw -- 'Grandson, this is meat' : hunting metonymy in François Mandeville's This is what they say / by Jasmine Spencer -- Sleepless in Somba K'e / by Rita Wong -- Old Rawhide died / by Bren Kolson -- Métis storytelling across time and space : situating the personal and academic self between homelands / by Zoe Todd.
Additional Physical Form available Note:: Issued also in electronic format.