Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Stories have the power to engage any age group of children as they all enjoy listening to it. They nurture feelings of empathy and compassion and help us connect with people, cultures and emotions. They also assist as a gateway for character-building and socio-emotional learning, especially for the younger children. Building life skills in primary children in the age group of 6-8 years can be a tough task but stories ease the work and make it enjoyable and bring happiness for them. A study was done by preservice teachers during the internship period on primary school children. Through a consistent effort of narrating stories was used to build skills like problem solving, critical thinking, patience, discovery etc. Data was collected by observing the classes where storytelling was done and the work done in the reflective journal by the children. The data was analysed using analytical memoing methods. The children in the class where storytelling was used showed a marked increase in learning the skills and handling day to day small issues in the classroom. Our findings provide a basis for the benefits of storytelling and suggest that a simple and inexpensive intervention may help alleviate happiness and build upon the life skills in children from a very young age.
Author: Jasmeet Kaur
Institution: University of Delhi
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404772104