Cremin, T;
Swann, J;
Flewitt, R;
Faulkner, D;
Kucirkova, N;
(2013)
Evaluation Report of MakeBelieve Arts Helicopter Technique of storytelling and story acting.
Open University/ MakeBelieveArts: Milton Keynes.
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Abstract
MakeBelieve Arts, a theatre and education company, have for over a decade worked with Vivian Gussin Paley’s (1990) storytelling and story acting curriculum, and developed a programme of professional development based on this approach. This has come to be known as the Helicopter Technique. In essence Paley’s storytelling and story-acting technique involves children telling their stories to an adult who scribes them verbatim. Later the same day the tales are acted out with their peers on a taped out stage in the classroom. Despite widespread scholarly recognition of Paley’s perceptive accounts of child play, there has been relatively little research investigating her storytelling and story acting technique and arguably few practitioners in the UK are acquainted with it. In early 2012, MakeBelieve Arts commissioned an evaluation of the Helicopter Technique (funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation) in order to consider the history of their development of the technique and to provide empirical evidence of its value to children and early years practitioners. The tender also involved consideration of possible developments of the approach in order to make it more sustainable in schools and early years settings. This study of the Helicopter Technique of storytelling and story acting, undertaken in 2012, aimed to evaluate: • The impact on children who have taken part in storytelling and story acting sessions. • The impact on practitioners who have received training from MakeBelieve Arts in this technique. • The importance of this work in order to provide indicators of how the model can be further improved and enhanced; and how it can be made more sustainable in schools and settings.
| Type: | Report |
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| Title: | Evaluation Report of MakeBelieve Arts Helicopter Technique of storytelling and story acting |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.makebelievearts.co.uk/Helicopter |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | storytelling, story acting, Vivian Gussin Paley, social justice, early literacy, arts and theatre education |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10027735 |
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