Understanding the Person through Narrative by Joanne M. Hall, Jill Powell

“…Narratives are an everyday means of communicating experience, and there is a place for storytelling in nearly all cultures. Thus narrative is a culturally congruent way to ascertain and understand experiences. …”
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Female social media influencers in the Arab Gulf: shaping marketing and advertising on Instagram by Afrah A. Alsalloum, Jason Gainous

“…Using a qualitative analysis of five prominent female influencers, the study highlights how emotional appeals like storytelling and self-expression are complemented by rational strategies emphasizing product attributes and benefits. …”
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Creative Citizenship – two journeys, one destination by Hargreaves Ian, Hartley John

“…It seeks to combine (i) autobiographical narrative storytelling – two of them, in fact; with (ii) an attempt to build concepts, themes and strategies out of that narrative, and how the two stories did indeed arrive at ‘one destination’; and (iii) plentiful use of visual prompts, combined with part-scripted, part-improvised dialogic commentary. …”
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Dissociation: understanding the dynamics of primary and secondary capacities by Veronica Mateescu

“…PPT fosters post-traumatic growth by integrating cultural sensitivity, metaphors, and storytelling, empowering individuals to transform dissociative mechanisms into resources for resilience and balanced self-functioning. …”
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A Demand for Narrative: Reading Sabahattin Ali's Novel Kuyucaklı Yusuf as a Quest for Identity by Murat Baran Akkuş

“…Acknowledging the existence of untold stories alongside the potential for new narratives attests to the power of storytelling through the vulnerability of a life story.…”
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Transcultural transformation in cinema by Yu. V. Vorontsova

“…This concept was the basis for a study of the organisational practices of director Carlos Saura, who in his last phase of his career focused on making films that offer samples of music, dance and unusual storytelling (based on the principle of “photography”) associated to the Iberian and Latin American space. …”
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Dancing Through Mythological Threads: Unraveling the Symbolism of Chechen Dance by Maysa Bakeer

“…By delving into the realms of myth and storytelling, Chechen dance gains a heightened sense of depth and appreciation, forging connections between the audience and the profound layers of symbolism, historical context, and spiritual essence embedded within the art form. …”
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From Zero Collaboration to Teamwork: Forms of Teacher Collaboration and Factors That Support or Hinder It by Katrin Saks, Pihel Hunt, Äli Leijen, Liina Lepp

“…The findings indicated more active collaboration at lower levels of the continuum—storytelling and scanning ideas, aid and assistance, and sharing. …”
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Teachers as Meaning Makers in Empathetic Reading Sessions: Toward More Emotional and Holistic Literature Pedagogy by Merja Kauppinen, Juli-Anna Aerila

“…Three main themes, which are presented under the headings: Story level; narrative meanings; Individual level; emotions relating to storytelling moments; and Communal level; issues of welfare and self-care. …”
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Teachers’ and Students’ Reflection on the Problem of Writing Narrative Text in a Remote Area (Flores Island) by Darmawan Labira

“…The problems raised when students started to put words on paper, students forgot their storytelling abilities: students couldn’t think of topics; omitted relevant details, but go on and on about irrelevant ones; their dialogue was bland; couldn’t figure out how to start and how to end. …”
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Coexistence between people and polar bears supports Indigenous knowledge mobilization in wildlife management and research by Katharina M. Miller, Georgina Berg, Indigenous Knowledge Keepers of Churchill, Michael Lickers, Nickia McIvor, Dominique A. Henri

“…We used community-based participatory research, coproduction of knowledge, hands back, hands forward, and storytelling, mixing methods from the social sciences and Indigenous ways of knowing. …”
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Narratives of an exodus by Elhadj Ould Brahim

“…Despite efforts to marginalize migrants, the study shows how these primarily Bidan (self-identified “white” Arabophone) individuals exercise agency by reshaping the narratives imposed on them, using cultural expressions such as poetry, music, and storytelling to contest the barriers they face. Ultimately, it reveals how Mauritanian migrants navigate and resist both physical and symbolic walls, transforming their journey into an act of defiance that subverts the dominant discourses surrounding migration and power.…”
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In Dositej's footsteps: From the paradigm of the modern to the controversy about postmodern Serbian identity by Lolić Marinko V.

“…Contrary to the views that Dositej's early works already represent a radical break with the medieval Serbian tradition, in this paper I develop arguments for the opposite point of view - that the principle of subjectivity of literary modernity is what enables us to consider Dositej's early works not as the result of a break with tradition, but as an autonomous act of literature and philosophy from the very principle of reflection and storytelling, which just opens the road to the acquisition of the modern identity of Serbian culture in strong theoretical terms.…”
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APPROACHING THE LEGENDARY HSUAN TSANG, THE PILGRIM AND SCHOLAR THROUGH THE LENS OF BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM by Thanh Trung Nguyen

“…This underscores Venerable Thich Minh Chau’s innovative contributions to storytelling and narrative structure, particularly when examined through the framework of biography and culture. …”
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Lomi And Totò : An Ethiopian-Italian Colonial or Postcolonial “Love Story”? by Giovanna Trento

“…Giovanna Trento in this article, thanks to the observation of this “private history”, highlights a certain controversial and unstable degree of fluidity between colonial and postcolonial periods, also questioning the degree of freedom individuals might have within a given social framework, thus suggesting some crucial and sometimes ambiguous issues related to: the use of racial laws in the fascist period; notions of concubinage, marriage and citizenship; gender and power relations; subaltern conditions and marginality within Italian colonialism; discrepancies between portraying African women and relating to them; new African-Italian identities; building collective memory and family storytelling; reproducing, suffering, or overcoming the “colony” today.…”
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Teachers’ and Students’ Reflection on the Problem of Writing Narrative Text in a Remote Area (Flores Island) by Darmawan Labira

“…The problems raised when students started to put words on paper, students forgot their storytelling abilities: students couldn’t think of topics; omitted relevant details, but go on and on about irrelevant ones; their dialogue was bland; couldn’t figure out how to start and how to end. …”
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Indigenous Theatre as Resistance: Toronto as a Nexus for Canada’s Burgeoning Indigenous Theatre Scene from Late 1980s to Early 1990s by Raphaela Pavlakos

“…This space, created by and for Indigenous creatives, made space for Indigenous voices and storytelling that did not yet exist to such a degree across Canada. …”
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Beyond the Acronym: Intersections of STEAM, Cybernetics, and Leadership Nurturing by Christopher Dignam

“…Additionally, this study employs portraiture and autoethnography methodology for storytelling and cybernetic learning. The incorporation of a cybernetic mindset, presented through a theoretical Cybernetic Three-Realm Model, enriches a dCoP by addressing (1) a Canvas for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), (2) an Artist’s Palette for Authentic Artifacts, and (3) The Paints of Modalities for Learning. …”
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Exploring corporate reputation variables to measure personal reputations by De la Rey Van der Waldt

“… This explorative article qualitatively describes reputation variables that are applicable to both corporate and personal reputations: identity, image, branding, personality, behaviour, culture, ethics and storytelling. The research problem is concerned with the fact that personal reputations are not studied with the same intensity as corporate reputations are. …”
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The Neurorehabilitation Training Toolkit (NTT): A Novel Worldwide Accessible Motor Training Approach for At-Home Rehabilitation after Stroke by Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, M. S. Cameirão

“…The NTT brings together concepts of optimal learning, engagement, and storytelling to deliver a personalized training to its users. …”
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