Telling Our Stories: Cultural Influences on Narratives

Much of education is dependent on comprehending and producing narratives. Narratives around the world differ in terms of functions, structure, content, and styles of telling the stories. If students are to be successful in mainstream schools, they must be able to comprehend and produce narratives with the functions, structures, content mainstream, and style of Western culture. Therefore, it is critical that educators and speech-language pathologists explicitly teach students to comprehend and produce Western-styles stories. However, educators and speech-language pathologists must be alert to how cultural differences may influence students’ comprehension and production of narratives. This requires careful observation and exploration. One should not assume that students from a particular language or cultural groups will demonstrate patterns mentioned in this chapter because there is considerable diversity within cultures. While teaching mainstream narratives, they need to be cautious so they do not denigrate the narratives of the students’ home cultures. Self-identity is developed through exposure to and production of narratives. Therefore, it is also critical that students from diverse cultures have opportunities to see themselves in stories

Telling Our Stories at IFLA’s 2019 Meeting in Athens, Greece

Anne Burnett summarizes the 85th World Legal Information Congress (WLIC) and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ (IFLA) annual meeting held at the Megaron Convention Center, located in the Kolonaki neighborhood of Athens, Greece. Specially Burnett reviews two IFLA sponsored programs held August 26 - 27, 2019. DipLawMatic Dialogues is the official blog of the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Group of the American Association of Law Libraries. The FCIL-SIS serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on foreign, comparative and international law and legal research. This blog is intended to be a fun and educational resource for FCIL-SIS members, other law librarians, and anyone interested in foreign, comparative, and international law or law librarianship

Seeing God’s Presence in Others and Ourselves: Telling Our Stories

One of the central (and delightful) pieces of what I do as a practitioner developing student leaders is listening to the myriad of stories that our students represent. I intentionally ask them to tell their stories because I think it provides a glimpse into how the spirit of God is working in their lives. Understanding their own background gives them insight into their identity and character as followers of Christ and leaders

Resilient Threads Telling Our Stories Hilos Resilientes Cosiendo Nuestras Historias

Sewing is traditionally women’s work. Often characterized as homespun, even quaint, it is associated with the domestic sphere. What at first glance may appear charming belies the persuasive ways in which women work with textiles to depict apartheid in South Africa,1 identity,2 forced migration,3 grass roots activism,4 encoded messages,5 and remembrance of murdered and missing indigenous women.6 Perhaps that is why the powers that be are mostly unaware of its subversive potential, and thankfully so, as this potential remains under the radar “sew” to speak while galvanizing those at the margins. How might sewing bring women together in a circle of care, give them a sense of belonging to a larger community that provides hope and meaning while creating the conditions for activism and social justice? Such gatherings of women allow for precisely the confluence of belonging, healing, and resistance. Given their origins, we believe political arpilleras are particularly compelling in this regard. Arpilleras are three-dimensional appliquéd textiles of Latin America that originated in Chile.7 The backing is hessian,8 which translates into arpillera in Spanish. Women stitched onto hessian their everyday lived experiences under the gruesome and oppressive dictatorship of the US-backed coup of Augusto Pinochet, which occurred on September 11, 1973, against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.9 So, too, their threads and bits of fabric from the clothing of the “disappeared” allowed them to express what could not be expressed in words. Judith Herman in Trauma and Recovery10 writes that violence against women is a form of terrorism. Women essentially navigate a kind of war zone as part of everyday life. Sexual assault, child abuse, and family violence can only be understood in a sociopolitical context. Herman argues the personal is political. She writes that recovery from interpersonal trauma commonly develops in progressive stages, and she describes a model of recovery for women in which there are three stages. Stage one is safety and stabilization. Stage two is remembrance and mourning, and stage three is reconnection, commonality, and integration. We believe there is great value in women entering the public sphere as a collective to address violence against women systemically when recovering from gender-based violence. Recovery11 is not an individual personal act achieved in isolation but rather a cooperative endeavor linked to a sea change of cultural attitudes, values, and beliefs. Women tap into their potential by evolving into agents of change. In the following, we address an arpillera group program for women survivors of violence at a violence against women organization

2017 Fall Faculty Conference: Telling Our Stories, Demonstrating Excellence in Teaching

The 2017 Fall Faculty Conference featured teaching showcases by Kyriacos Aristotelous (Business, Accounting, and Economics), Phyllis Lynne Burns (English), Terry Hermsen (English), Mike Hudoba (Engineering), and Leesa Kern (Sociology, Criminology, and Justice Studies). Breakout sessions followed.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/fall_faculty_conference/1005/thumbnail.jp

Clark Memorandum: Fall 2007

Clark Memorandum: Fall 2007 Packing Your Briefcase Religiously Affiliated Law Schools Peacemaking Telling Our Stories of Jesushttps://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/clarkmemo_gallery/1006/thumbnail.jp

Story map building trends: moving from Esri Story Maps classic to ArcGIS StoryMaps

In this column we discuss some of the features of the recently introduced ArcGIS StoryMaps, and the significance of this next generation tool for telling our stories