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Conversation around story and storytelling

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The centrality of story in our lives and learning has been a major theme in our discussions. It is a truism that human beings are storytelling creatures. The following three conversations particularly focus on oral storytelling and its importance for teachers and children to be storytellers.

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  1. University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Gloria Latham & Robyn Ewing

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Latham, G., Ewing, R. (2018). Conversation around story and storytelling. In: Generative Conversations for Creative Learning. Creativity, Education and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60519-7_8

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