Storytelling as Promoting Moral Consciousness: Religious Education Teachers’ Perspectives

Mahir S. Al-Hawamleh

Abstract


This study aims at investigating the role of storytelling in promoting students’ moral consciousness; as an educational activity that combines religion with storyline. To achieve this aim, an opinion questionnaire was managed to religious education teachers in Irbid, Jordan in the academic year 2018-2019. The study inquired on to what extent storytelling help in learners’ internalize moral behavior conduct in light of Islamic ethics and values. The achieved results specify teachers’ excessive sureness in the effectiveness of storytelling role in forming moral behavior.

https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.10.2


Keywords


Storytelling; moral consciousness; religious education teachers

Full Text:

PDF

References


Ableman, P. (2000). The secret of consciousness: How the brain tells 'The story of me'. London: Marion Boyars.

Alavi, H. R. (2007). Alâ€GhazÄli on moral education. Journal of Moral Education, 36(3), 309â€319. doi:10.1080/03057240701552810

Alkaaf, F., & Al-Bulushi, A. (2017). Tell and write: The effect of storytelling strategy for developing story writing skills among grade seven learners. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 7, 119-141. doi:10.4236/ojml.2017.72010

Baker, A., & Greene, E. (1977). Storytelling: Art and Technique. New York, NY: R. R. Bowker.

Boyatzis, C. J. (2005). Religious and spiritual development in childhood. In R. F. Paloutzian & C. L. Park (Eds.), Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality (pp. 123-143). New York, NY, US: Guilford Press.

Bruner, J. (1991) The narrative construction of reality. Critical Inquiry, 18 (1), 1–22.

Bunanta, M. (2003). Indonesian folktales. Santa Barbra, CA: Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited.

Chowdhury, M. (2016). Emphasizing morals, values, ethics, and character education in science education and science teaching.The Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Science, 4(2), 1-16. Retrieved February 17, 2019 from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1095995.pdf

Fisher, W. R. (1984) Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument. Communication Monographs; 51(1), 1–22. doi:10.1080/03637758409390180

Gottschall, Jonathan (2012). The storytelling animal: Make us human. Boston, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Halstead, J. M. (2007). Islamic values: A distinctive framework for moral education? Journal of Moral Education, 36(3), 283â€296. doi:10.1080/03057240701643056

Heintz, M. (2006). Tolerance, conformity and moral relativism: Cases from Moldova. In C. Hann, and the “Civil Religion†Group, The postsocialist religious question: Faith and power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe, (pp. 193-212). Muenster: LIT Verlag.

Herman, J. L. (1997). Trauma and recovery. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Hussain, K. (2007). An Islamic consideration of western moral education: An exploration of the individual. Journal of Moral Education, 36(3), 297â€308. doi:10.1080/03057240701552802

Kelley, J. E. (2008). Harmony, empathy, loyalty, and patience in Japanese children's literature. Social Studies, 99(2), 61-70. doi:10.3200/tsss.99.2.61-70

Li, B., Lee-Urban, S., Johnston, G., & Riedl, M. O. (2013). Story generation with crowdsourced plot graphs. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). Retrieved January 18, 2019, from https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aaai13.pdf

Molenda, C. F. & Bhavnagri, N. P. (2009) .Cooperation through movement education and children's literature. Early Childhood Education Journal, 37(2), 153-159. doi:10.1007/s10643-009-0333-0

Nielsen, J. S. (2000, 27 October). The contribution of interfaith dialogue towards a culture of peace. Paper presented at the International Conference on Dialogue of Civilizations, Institute of Islamic Studies, London. Retrieved from http://wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/interreligious/cd36-06.html

O’Neill, B. C., & Riedl, M. O. (2014, July 27–31). Dramatis: A computational model of suspense. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.Québec Convention Center, Québec City, Québec, Canada.Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 944-950. Retrieved from https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI14/paper/view/8515/8523

Polletta, F. (2006).It was like a fever: Storytelling in protest and politics. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Putnam, R. D. (2015). Our kids: The American dream in crisis. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Richie, B. E. (2015). Reimagining the Movement to End Gender Violence: Anti-racism, Prison Abolition, Women of Color Feminisms, and Other Radical Visions of Justice (Transcript), 5 U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev. 257. Retrieved May 11, 2019, from http://repository.law.miami.edu/umrsjlr/vol5/iss2/6

Rossano, M. J. (2008) The moral faculty: Does religion promote moral expertise? International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1 (3), 169-194. doi:10.1080/10508610802115727

Rumbold, B. (2002). Spirituality and palliative care: Social and pastoral perspectives. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Setiawati, S. (2017). Using puppet as media to increase the children vocabulary. Jurnal Pendidikan Al-Ishlah, 8(4), 257-269.

Sinnott, J. (2001). Introduction: Special issue on spirituality and adult development, part 1. Journal of Adult Development, 8(4), 199–200.

Smith, C. (1989). From wonder to wisdom: Using stories to help children grow. New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Stan, C. (2001). Teoria educației: Actualitate şi perspective. Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană.

UNHCR. (2006). The state of the world’s refugees. Geneva: The office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Varga, I. (1993). Orthodoxy, modernity and post communism. Paper presented at the Religions Sans Frontieres, Rome.

Walter, D. (2016, September 6). Story is, to coin a phrase, the operating system of human consciousness [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://damiengwalter.com/2016/09/06/why-story-is-the-most-important-word-of-the-21st-century/

Yoo, S.-Y. (1997). Children's literature for developing good readers and writers in kindergarten. Education, 118(1), 123-129. Retrieved from https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-20381966/children-s-literature-for-developing-good-readers.

Zeichner, K. M., & Liston, D. P. (1996). Reflective teaching: An introduction. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associa


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


e-ISSN: 1694-2116

p-ISSN: 1694-2493