Understanding the World Through Narrative: 160+ Classroom Activities in Fiction, Mythology, Science, History, and the Media: StoryWise for 9-15 year-olds

While many educational books focus on creative and critical thinking skills, this ground-breaking work is the first to deal specifically with the ability to understand, question and evaluate information presented, broadly speaking, in story form.
Story or narrative is central to our understanding of and interaction with the world around us. We only have to think of the ‘mini stories’ encapsulated in many advertisements; the way that topics in science – the story of human evolution for examp...