Bøger af Susan Perrow

Denne vigtige samling af forvandlende fortællinger tilbyder fortællemedicin som en kreativ strategi til forældre, lærere, pædagoger og rådgivere. At få fortalt den rigtige historie på det rigtige tidspunkt kan hjælpe børn med at overvinde udfordringer og ændre adfærd. Alle historierne tager udgangspunkt i en uønsket eller ubalanceret situation eller adfærd, som gennem brug af metaforer og fantasifulde fortællerejser føres hen imod mere ønskværdige løsninger.Fortællingerne er alfabetiseret med titler og ord, der beskriver den adfærd, som fortællingerne tager udgangspunkt i og forvandler: Angribende, bange, dominerende, generte, m.fl. Nogle af historierne er fulde af humor, mens andre er mere seriøse.Fortællingerne kan fortælles, tilpasses, laves om til hjemmelavede billedbøger eller dukketeater eller bruges til nye, kreative fortællinger.Susan Perrows seneste undersøgelser og eksperimenter har ført til tilblivelsen af denne bog som en opfølgning på hendes bestseller Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour og Therapeutic Storytelling.Susan Perrow er Master in Education, australsk forfatter og fortæller og arbejder med “fortællemedicin”. Hun har mange års erfaring med at undervise i og skrive terapeutiske fortællinger. Hun rejser rundt i hele verden, holder foredrag og afholder skriveworkshops og seminarer for lærere, forældre og terapeuter.Bogen er trykt bæredygtigt og miljøvenligt i Danmark.

Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour brings together the fruits of Susan Perrow's work in storymaking. It is richly illustrated with lively anecdotes drawn from parents and teachers who have discovered how the power of story can help resolve a range of common childhood behaviours and situations such as separation anxiety, bullying, sibling rivalry, nightmares and grieving.

This thesis explores processes that have helped me as a white Australian in post-apartheid South Africa to collaboratively develop storytelling courses for black South African early childhood teachers. The study is an action research project that documents, in narrative style, my journey of learning and change as a teacher-trainer in the townships of Cape Town from 1994 until 1999. In the literature review the importance of storytelling as a teaching and learning tool has been researched, and the effects of South African history on the storytelling culture of the African people has been investigated. To help understand my own ¿way of being'' in a different culture, components and complexities of working and communicating in cross-cultural situations have been explored, as well as reflection on myself, my ¿whiteness'' and aspects of whiteness. The research journey has involved two main cycles of planning, acting, observing and reflecting, the first one retrospective. Qualitative data has been documented from in-depth interviewing, open-ended questionnaires, reflexive journals and feedback from critical friends and course participants.

Each story in this collection begins with an undesirable or out-of-balance situation and, through the use of metaphor and an imaginative story journey, leads to a more desirable resolution. In this way, the stories also have the potential for nurturing positive values.