The Narrative 4 story exchange is a strategy for using reciprocal storytelling, deep listening, and perspective taking to foster curiosity, empathy, and meaningful connections. Storytellers share their stories with a partner and actively listen while their partner shares their story. The group gathers together and each participant retells their partner’s story in the first person. This session informs educators through experience how they can use narrative storytelling to advance the cause of environmental education by helping students see themselves in the story of their place and time.
Narrative 4 teacher-facilitators around the world use this method to provoke curiosity and drive inquiry-based learning in their classrooms in any subject or interdisciplinary effort. N4 also connects partner schools and facilitators with each other in our global network, so interested educators can build intentional collaboration across all distances and divides to bring diverse learning opportunities to their students, through the human face of story. Participants can expect to leave with a strong feeling of community and connection to their fellow educators, as well as a humanities-flavored way to bring science education to all learners.
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