This study, based on the previous studies, investigated the general characteristics of storytelling, the relationships between the storytelling and education, furthermore, found the meanings and the roles of storytelling in geography education. Storyt...
This study, based on the previous studies, investigated the general characteristics of storytelling, the relationships between the storytelling and education, furthermore, found the meanings and the roles of storytelling in geography education. Storytelling has four main characteristics in geography education. The first characteristic of storytelling is the learning of place through storytelling. Geography education emphasizes on space and location understood as human living environment. Storytelling can be used to change general, abstract, and uniformed space into subjective, concrete, and realistic space. Storytelling is a process of sharing students' own experiences, historical stories, legends, myths, or other's experiences. Through the storytelling process, they can analyze the characteristics of place related to human and space. Second, storytelling helps students develop their emotion. Geographic story related to place consists of events involved with human and chronological order. Storytelling is useful not only to teach just current situation and facts. But, storytelling helps students develop their interest, increase their imagination and furthermore, experience similar emotions. From the perspective of teachers, the third characteristic of storytelling is to create pedagogical content knowledge. In a global context, storytelling is a design starting from making a story board and ph tning overall class processes. That is, the success of instruction depends on how teachers ph t the class. However, in a specific context, storytelling is a teaching strategy and a certain instruction step to tell a story related to instruction contents. To del str a certain concept or theory in a more effective and understandable way, teachers make a l a mn a various and interesting story rather than simply provide textbook contents. The last characteristic of storytelling is to encourage students to develop their meta-cognition. Storytelling is a method to create a story chronologically with human feeling, behaviors, and experiences. Unlike previous instruction methods to tell a series of a story, storytelling makes an environment where students can listen a story, criticize the story based on their background knowledge, develop new thinking, and construct an advanced thinking skill which is called meta-cognition. Students can analyze causes and effects and summarize illustrated events in the story. These activities can be considered to be meta-cognition.