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Storytelling,
Story-retelling, Storyknowing: Towards a Participatory Practice of Storytelling
Abstract
This paper presents a practice-led
research project that investigates how people from diverse community and school
groups understand and respond to oral storytelling. Run in collaboration with York Theatre Royal, the project
uses art form workshops (drama, music, fine art) to actively invite
participants to make the transition from listeners to storytellers. This paper
places these workshops within a theoretical framework that draws upon
understandings of storytelling developed by Benjamin, Bruner, Kearney and
Wilson. We argue: 1) that through the
process of (re)telling participants demonstrate a particular kind of embedded
knowledge that we have termed ‘storyknowing’; and 2) that inhabiting a story in
this open-ended way has intrinsic value.
We present a typology of strategies for retelling adopted by the participants
and reflect on our development of a participatory practice of storytelling.
Key words
Storytelling, narrative,
participatory practice, narrative knowing.
