A STUDY ON `STORYTELLING: AN EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH TO PROMOTE CREATIVITY IN PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION’

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Storytelling is a widely used approach to disseminate thoughts in the society from the primitive age and children are highly fascinated by the story. In the pre-primary curriculum of Bangladesh storytelling has given much emphasis as a source of joyful learning with imagination and creativity. This qualitative study explored the effectiveness of storytelling as a pedagogical approach. In addition, it investigated to identify the creative elements in the storytelling process. The data were collected from five pre-primary classrooms observation, each of which contained approximately 30 children and a teacher, five pre-primary teachers interview and a story-crafting session with a pre-primary class that involved 10 children, 5 boys and 5 girls. The research materials used in this study consist of observation notes, teachers interview transcripts, children’s anticipatory stories collected by the story-crafting method (story-crafting originated in Finland), drawings and children’s descriptive notes about their drawings. Triangulation across observations, interviews, and children’s artefacts enhanced the trustworthiness of interpretations. The story-crafting method used in this study based on a fragment of a fictional story. The study corroborated that storytelling has a significant role in children’s imagination and creative thinking. It seems that storytelling grasps children's attention and inspires imagination. The study showed that storytelling could be an effective pedagogical approach for early years settings, but the teachers need training on storytelling skills.

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