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A Tale Of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling Through Repeated Experiences, Serge A. Martinez, Stefan H. Krieger
A Tale Of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling Through Repeated Experiences, Serge A. Martinez, Stefan H. Krieger
Stefan H Krieger
The article was inspired by a one-day project November 4, 2008, when we supervised a number of clinic students representing voters who had been denied the right to vote. As they represented client after client, we noticed significant improvement in their storytelling skills over a very short period, despite having little training in storytelling theory or techniques. Using our Election Day project as a starting point, the article questions the dominant pedagogical model for teaching storytelling, which focuses primarily on teaching storytelling and narrative theory. We propose a new method, based on cognitive science findings about experiential learning, that emphasizes …
The Place Of Storytelling In Legal Reasoning: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Torah Min Hashamayim, Stefan H. Krieger
The Place Of Storytelling In Legal Reasoning: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Torah Min Hashamayim, Stefan H. Krieger
Stefan H Krieger
This article reads the teachings of two rabbis from the Second Century through the lenses of cognitive science on legal thinking and shows the relationship between their narratives and legal opinions. Cognitive scientists posit that both logical and narrative thinking are essential modes of cognitive functioning. The stories and legal decisions of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael, as described by Abraham Joshua Heschel in his masterpiece, Torah Min Hashamayim support these insights. Heschel was one of the preeminent Jewish theologians of the twentieth century, and this book was recently translated into English under the title Heavenly Torah. Both rabbis lived …