Children's Use of Speech and Repetition in Oral Storytelling: The Role of Cultural Patterning in Children's Retellings of First Nations Oral Narrative
This paper presents a case study of a classroom of culturally diverse grade one students who participated in a First Nations cultural education program focused around traditional oral storytelling. The data reveal particular forms of narrative skills that these children were exploring in this contex...
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crskarger:10.1159/000381275 2024-10-13T14:07:15+00:00 Children's Use of Speech and Repetition in Oral Storytelling: The Role of Cultural Patterning in Children's Retellings of First Nations Oral Narrative Allen, James W. Lalonde, Christopher E. 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381275 https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/381275 en eng S. Karger AG https://www.karger.com/Services/SiteLicenses https://www.karger.com/Services/SiteLicenses Human Development volume 58, issue 2, page 70-96 ISSN 0018-716X 1423-0054 journal-article 2015 crskarger https://doi.org/10.1159/000381275 2024-09-18T04:06:25Z This paper presents a case study of a classroom of culturally diverse grade one students who participated in a First Nations cultural education program focused around traditional oral storytelling. The data reveal particular forms of narrative skills that these children were exploring in this context. Through a “verse analysis” of stories told to the children by a First Nations cultural educator and an analysis of the retellings of these stories by the children, we found that both the educator and the students employed a patterned use of speech and repetition to achieve particular rhetorical effects. We argue that examining children's participation in these particular forms of narrative practice provides evidence relevant to theories of cognitive development as a process of cultural participation, and it extends theoretical conceptions of children's narrative development to incorporate additional dimensions related to understandings of narrative form, evaluation, and the role of affect and the social context. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Karger Human Development 58 2 70 96 |
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This paper presents a case study of a classroom of culturally diverse grade one students who participated in a First Nations cultural education program focused around traditional oral storytelling. The data reveal particular forms of narrative skills that these children were exploring in this context. Through a “verse analysis” of stories told to the children by a First Nations cultural educator and an analysis of the retellings of these stories by the children, we found that both the educator and the students employed a patterned use of speech and repetition to achieve particular rhetorical effects. We argue that examining children's participation in these particular forms of narrative practice provides evidence relevant to theories of cognitive development as a process of cultural participation, and it extends theoretical conceptions of children's narrative development to incorporate additional dimensions related to understandings of narrative form, evaluation, and the role of affect and the social context. |
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Children's Use of Speech and Repetition in Oral Storytelling: The Role of Cultural Patterning in Children's Retellings of First Nations Oral Narrative |
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Children's Use of Speech and Repetition in Oral Storytelling: The Role of Cultural Patterning in Children's Retellings of First Nations Oral Narrative |
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Children's Use of Speech and Repetition in Oral Storytelling: The Role of Cultural Patterning in Children's Retellings of First Nations Oral Narrative |
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Children's Use of Speech and Repetition in Oral Storytelling: The Role of Cultural Patterning in Children's Retellings of First Nations Oral Narrative |
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children's use of speech and repetition in oral storytelling: the role of cultural patterning in children's retellings of first nations oral narrative |
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