A teaching story is a narrative that has been deliberately created as a vehicle for the transmission of wisdom. The practice has been used in a number of religious and other traditions, though writer Idries Shah's use of it was in the context of Sufi teaching and learning, within which this body of material has been described as the "most valuable of the treasures in the human heritage".[1] The range of teaching stories is enormous, including anecdotes, accounts of meetings between teachers and pupils, biographies, myths, fairy tales, fables and jokes. Such stories frequently have a long life beyond the initial teaching situation and (sometimes in deteriorated form) have contributed vastly to the world's store of folklore and literature.
^Doris Lessing (January 31, 1999). "On Sufism and Idries Shah's The Commanding Self (1994)". Sufi Studies Today. Archived from the original on 18 July 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
the world's store of folklore and literature. It is the teaching function of teachingstories that characterises them rather than any other categorisation...
his discussion of stories as teaching tools, quoting the following explanation his father gave him at the end of a story: These stories are technical documents...
and storytellers, and he has studied traditional "teachingstories" for many years. These stories contain layers of deeper meaning, and Shah likens them...
and storytellers, and he has studied traditional "teachingstories" for many years. These stories contain layers of deeper meaning, and Shah likens them...
Enchanted. 20th-century educators debated the value and influence of teachingstories that include brutality and violence, and some of the more gruesome...
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of the story in one of the many interpretations of the story, and its function as a teachingstory: ...people address themselves to this story in one...
graduate level writing group in a program titled Stories from our Classroom. Some of these stories went onto be published in The Atlantic, Huffington...
concerned with the theories and techniques of teaching language. It has been described as a type of teaching wherein the teacher draws from their own prior...
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discussions, controlling the conversation's flow. Typically, this style of teaching also involves giving students the at-home tasks of reading from textbooks...
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series The Seven TeachingsStories was published by HighWater Press https://www.portageandmainpress.com/Series/T/The-Seven-Teachings-Stories in 2015. Illustrated...
138. ISSN 0194-4703. Erlich, Richard D. (2009). Coyote's Song: The TeachingStories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Borgo Press. pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-1-4344-5775-2...
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