Through the Lens of Story Workshop: Untethering the Prescriptive Bounds of Traditional Literacy

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dc.contributor.authorTakhar, Helena
dc.contributor.supervisorFiller, Chris
dc.contributor.supervisorStreelasky, Jodi
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-28T22:17:09Z
dc.date.available2017-04-28T22:17:09Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017-04-28
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instructionen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Education M.Ed.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe new BC Curriculum honours and recognizes that the world is changing, and that students need more than the basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills to succeed in the 21st century. The revised curriculum puts an emphasis on the need to provide children with opportunities to explore their passions and interests, develop their critical thinking and collaboration skills and have access to personalized learning opportunities. Story Workshop is a classroom structure first introduced by Opal School in Portland, Oregon, where children are invited to develop and enhance their “language and literacy skills through play and exploration of materials such as clay, paint, props or blocks”. Story Workshop is an authentic way to evoke past memories, provoke curiosity and ignite the inner story that is within each child. Dewey’s (1929) theory of hands-on learning supports the intention of Story Workshop as it aims’ at children’s interests as a vehicle to knowledge acquisition. Story Workshop honours the Universal Design for Learning platform, embracing ways of learning that appeal to the critical habits of mind, strengthening skills like perseverance, critical thinking, flexibility, innovation, wonder and joy. Story Workshop is a progressive approach to infusing literacy in an authentic manner into the classroom.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/8014
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectStory Workshopen_US
dc.subjectmaterialsen_US
dc.subjectloose partsen_US
dc.subjectstudent voiceen_US
dc.subjectfunds of knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectfunds of identityen_US
dc.subjectculturally responsive teachingen_US
dc.titleThrough the Lens of Story Workshop: Untethering the Prescriptive Bounds of Traditional Literacyen_US
dc.typeprojecten_US

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