You Don't Know Jack

Am I jack?

Jack and Kevin

• Are from Appalachia --Maybe
• Left the family
• Learned from "Helpers"
• raised from homespun tales and told stories
• Struggled with their place in the world

"Jack, according to the dictionary, is a generic name for any representative of the people. Jack is one of the folk, an everyman" (Stotter and McCarthy, 1994, p 154.)

I tell stories

Am I allowed to be teller and teacher?

Nepantla

I thought I knew what it meant to use Story

Until I walked the Oregon Trail

traveled to mars

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Writing to Reflect

assumptions about story

• Told stories are privileged as tools for learning.
• A performed story must be prescriptive.
• One can not interrupt a story.
• story making only serves storytelling.
• A story must have a beginning, middle and end.

This research troubled my thinking

Narrative dimensions

• tellership
• tellablity
• embeddedness
• linearity
• moral stance

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Telling stories

living stories or ensemble storytelling

My Jack Journey

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New discoveries

• Explore the place of story in Academia
• Challenge storytellers to step out of the box.
• Use process drama in storytelling--ensemble style
• Educators and storytellers need to value story making as a meaning making tool.
• Don't neglect improvisation and play as tools for learning.

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• Reflection leads to change.
• "In essence, the narrative teacher believes in the power of story, and so stories become a central tool for teaching and learning." (Pagnucci, 2004, p.47).

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• JACK GUIDES ME.
• HE ALLOWS ME TO VALUE STORY
• AND STORY MAKING.
• "KNOWING JACK"

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