The Power of Storytelling in Teaching Practices : Narratives from Hong Kong and Afar (Paperback)

Introduction  1. The intro-spectator, the agent and the collaboration-maker: Storytellers in the time of pandemonium  Part 1: Personal Narratives and Transformation: The Introspective Storyteller  2. The power of teacher narrative: Critical incidents as an impetus for teacher professional development  3. "Jump off the building, commit suicide!": a sombre journey towards trust, self-importance, storytelling, and collaborative teaching and learning in Hong Kong through a proposed i.e. poetic-memoir  Part 2: Repurposed Narratives and Participation: The Agentive Storyteller   4. Empathy, rhetoric and dramatic speech writing  5. The department poet: On institutional demands, on writing from the heart  Part 3: Inter-Narratives and Development: The Collaborative Storyteller   6. "Before the Law" Merging process drama with creative writing in new media  7. Crisis pedagogy in creative writing: Emergency, expedience, hindsight, reckoning Conclusion  8. A new story in the making: Problems, perspectives, pedagogies, practices and prospect