Click here to move to the content
You are here: ICR : Events : Seminar : Mar 2009 : Chris SmithChris will introduce us to the work of the Storytelling Museum, which works with twenty schools in Oxfordshire. It teaches children from disadvantaged backgrounds to tell stories as a way of creating a positive school experience, developing language and creative skills and improving literacy. He’ll include a selection of stories that are being introduced in these schools, starting from anecdote, through folktale and wondertale to legend and myth: the storyteller’s ladder to the moon.
Chris Smith, PhD is Creative Director of the Oxford-based Story Museum, an organisation dedicated to the promotion of story ( http://www.storymuseum.org.uk ). He was trained in performance storytelling with Ben Haggarty and on the use of story in therapy and education with Alida Gersie, and is author of two books, The Islamic Year and One City, Two Brothers. Before becoming a storyteller Chris worked for fifteen years in the Middle East, including a time running UNICEFs programme for children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Power of Stories: Lectures and speakers
Music, Pleasure and the Brain - Dr. Harry Witchel
more info >>
Why do we leave it so late? - David Canter
more info >>
Scheherazade and the global mutation of teaching stories - Robert Irwin
more info >>
see full list of new publications >>
© Institute For Cultural Research, Accessible/Printable version by brightlemon web design uk
Reg. Charity No. 313295