SO517 Storytelling

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/1. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
PaedDr. Marie Pavlovská, Ph.D. (lecturer), MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D. (deputy)
MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Dana Jakubjanská, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
SOUHLAS
Full-time and part-time studies are taught in the form of a 1.5-day workshop.
- Students are divided into seminar groups. - 100% participation.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to acquire the basic knowledge connected with the phenomenon of narrative, the development of practical skills connected with narrative performance in the act of living narrative - following the use of work with the story in the practice of social pedagogue. As part of the course, learners will participate in the Living Libraries program.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- describe the main features of working with a story with people with a difficult life situation;
- explain the main principles of the living library method;
- to use (tell) a story following the practice of a social pedagogue.
Syllabus
  • Overview of narrative topics: - Live narration - a special situation of communication - Community Story - Narrator, Audience, Story - Story - construction, construction, conventions - Story written / narrated - Material vers. Work / story vers. Its recovery in the mode now and here - Imagination, imagination, fantasy - in narrative practice - The narrator's imaging tools - multi-layered communication - Narrative as a craft - craftsman, tools, procedures, material, work - Creative work on the theme of the story, its processing for live narration. - Living Library
Literature
    required literature
  • Plachá, Z. (eds.) Živá knihovna jako metoda výuky aneb vzdělávání příběhem. ARPOK, o.p.s. D z https://eshop.arpok.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/%C5%BDiv%C3%A1-knihovna-jako-metoda-v%C3%BDuky-aneb-vzd%C4%9Bl%C3%A1v%C3%A1n%C3%AD-p%C5%99%C3%ADb%C4%9Bhem.pdf
  • VORÁČOVÁ, Barbora. Storytelling, aneb, Cesta do příběhu. Vydání první. V Praze: Pasparta, 2022, 139 stran. ISBN 9788088429517. info
    recommended literature
  • MCDRURY, Janice and Maxine ALTERIO. Learning through storytelling in higher education : using reflection & experience to improve learning. Sterling, VA: Kogan Page, 2003, 198 s. ISBN 0749440384. info
  • GRUGEON, Elizabeth and Paul GARDNER. The art of storytelling for teachers and pupils : using stories to develop literacy in primary classrooms. London: David Fulton, 2000, xiii, 128. ISBN 1853466174. info
  • The therapeutic use of stories. Edited by Kedar Nath Dwivedi. New York: Routledge, 1997, xvii, 237. ISBN 041515071X. info
  • THOMAS, Gerald. The two traditions : the art of storytelling amongst French Newfoundlanders : Les deux traditions (Orig.). St. John's, Nfld.: Breakwater, 1993, 373 s. ISBN 1-55081-055-3. info
  • MAGUIRE, Jack. Creative storytelling : choosing, inventing, and sharing tales for children. Illustrated by Dale Gottlieb. New expanded ed. Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon, 1985, 200 s. ISBN 0938756354. info
Teaching methods
excercises, lectures
Assessment methods
credit, 100% presence
Náhradní absolvování
In the case of a study abroad trip, it is possible to take the course in an alternative form. The learner will study compulsory literature from the syllabus and write excerpts from it, as well as attend and reflect in writing on the living library session. He/she further discusses his/her excerpts and the living library experience with the course supervisor.
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/ped/jaro2025/SO517/index.qwarp
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 1,5 dne.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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