Drawing and Storytelling as Political Action: Difference, Plurality and Coming into Presence in the Early Childhood Classroom

Abstract

This article is an embodied representation of how narrative illustrates Hannah Arendt's ideas of action, natality and plurality. It is, in essence, a story of a story that situates the actions of two young children as an instance where difference came together through the political and public act of drawing. Throughout the unfolding of the event, and in the subsequent retelling of that event, subjectivity came into presence, for both the children and myself. Our knowing was mediated by our immediate experience and understood only in the reflection of the experience. The encounter highlights how early childhood art practices can serve as an opening for contemplating a relational theory of learning. It further illustrates how narrative frameworks provide important opportunities to respond to difference through the reorganisation and reintegration of ideas generated in action.

Developing Skills of Early Childhood Teachers Through Tales Writing Training and Presentation Techniques in East Lombok

“…In fact, the child's language development can be done through a method of storytelling or recalled, according to the results of research studies conducted (Junaidi, 2017) which found that if the storytelling method can improve the child's ability to speak significantly. The opinion expressed by almost the same (Yuksel-Arslan, Yildirim and Robin, 2016;Sunday, 2018) there is a significant correlation between the ability to speak the child with fairy tales or stories commonly heard. With the detection of this problem, is expected to be one of the bases for the implementation of a fairy tale writing training given to early childhood teachers in East Lombok district so it is important to review what kind of response and skills after training early childhood teachers to write a story.…”

“…However, students or learners also often ask, what exactly is meant Malin Kundang stone. Although Tale as work of fiction, by definition, the fairy tale is a story about the behavior of a character by using like or comparison (Cremin et al, 2018;Sunday, 2018;Brodin and Renblad, 2019) describes reality only fictitious but in the context of education and learning, any material submitted must have a relationship with the real condition of students or learners so that the values instilled especially the values of character to be well received. In this case the use of content myth from different areas is not a problem but it would be great if accompanied by a fairy tale that is local.…”

“…Through stories, teachers can convey the message, either the message of religious, moral, social, or cultural without being limited to a particular figure (Willhite, 2017)). (Hadzigeorgiou, 2016;Maureen, van der Meij and de Jong, 2018;Sunday, 2018) Describe the method of storytelling is an effective way to embed a range of values, especially for literacy and the development of character values and morals. through storytelling children will be able to better understand the meaning of development, especially on the virtues mythical delivered.…”

Evaluating storytelling activities for early literacy development

“…There is a considerable body of research on the effects of storytelling interventions on children's story-related abilities, including story comprehension and the acquisition of story structures such as diction, grammatical structure and content (Wessel-Powell, Kargin, and Wohlwend 2016). Research has also investigated its effects on general or second language development (Abasi and Soori 2014;Flynn 2016) and social-emotional development (Cekaite and Björk-Willén 2018;Sunday 2018). However, the contribution of a storytelling approach to early literacy skills development has hardly ever been investigated.…”

Storytime in early childhood education: designing storytelling activities to enhance (digital) literacy development

“…Abasi & Soori, 2014;Flynn, 2016) and social emotional development (e.g. Cekaite & Björk-Willén, 2018;Sunday, 2018). However, the contribution of a storytelling approach to early literacy skills development is hardly ever investigated.…”