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A Tale Of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling Through Repeated Experiences, Stefan H. Krieger, Serge A. Martinez Jan 2010

A Tale Of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling Through Repeated Experiences, Stefan H. Krieger, Serge A. Martinez

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The article describes the author's experience of supervising students from each of the seven clinical courses offered at Hofstra University Law School on Election Day 2008 in the U.S. It discusses cognitive science research into skills learning and the legal scholarship on teaching storytelling to lawyers. The article proposes a new way of teaching storytelling skills via the creation of learning environment that provides repeated opportunities to tell stories in a short period of time.