A Tale worth Telling: Helping Students Construct Stories of the Past

Abstract

This article explores the clichéd notion of history as narrative. Within the context of an interesting narrative, events, ideas, and people in the past become plot points instead of detached fragments of data. This re-conception of historical facts as pieces of a story allows

Citation

Gray, K.C. and Fridley, D.E. (2006), "A Tale worth Telling: Helping Students Construct Stories of the Past", Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 449-456. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-03-2006-B0014