| Table of Contents |
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| Foreword |
5 |
| R. Eric Landrum |
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| Introduction |
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| The Power of Story as an Instructional Strategy |
7 |
| Karen Brakke, Jeremy Ashton Houska, Xin Zhao, Sherry Lynn Kinslow, Amanda Clinton, and Brad Campbell |
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| The Use of Story among Teachers of Psychology |
14 |
| Jeremy Ashton Houska, Karen Brakke, Sherry Lynn Kinslow, Xin Zhao, Brad Campbell, and Amanda Clinton |
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| Section 1: Comprehension of Stories |
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| Weaving Yarns into Good Psychological Science Education |
27 |
| Richard L. Miller and William J. Wozniak |
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| Remembering Stories: Constructing Elaborate Situation Models in Memory |
40 |
| David E. Copeland, Kathleen G. Larson, and Michael T. Palena |
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| Encouraging Comprehension: Insights from Research on Reading Stories |
49 |
| Jeffrey E. Foy |
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| Section 2: Using Students’ Autobiographical Stories |
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| The Story of Your Life: Personal Mission Statements as Guiding Narratives for Young Adults |
60 |
| H. Russell Searight and Barbara K. Searight |
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| Lives-as-Text: Assigning Self-Narrative to Inform Learning |
69 |
| Joyce Fields, Karen C. Thompson, & Shirley Huisman |
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| Telling Research Stories: Formulating Coherent Narratives in Research Intensive Courses |
79 |
| Jeremy Ashton Houska and Meredith Drew |
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| Family Stories as Springboards for Learning |
87 |
| Robyn Fivush and Natalie Merrill |
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| Section 3: Incorporating Story in the Classroom |
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| Antsy Students Impatient to Leave Class and Faculty Captive in NPR Driveway Moments: Enhancing Science Classes with Personal Stories |
98 |
| Kevin H. Grobman |
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| Phenomenology of the Story in Dialogue: Narrative as Pedagogy in Psychology |
116 |
| Matthew Draper, David Polizzi, Daniel Sturtevant, and James McGraw |
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| Fairy Tales and Murder Mysteries: Using Stories in Statistics to Increase Learning and Understanding |
127 |
| Jana Hackathorn and Brien K. Ashdown |
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| Holistic Learning to Holistic Help: Use of Case-Based Education in Promoting Psychological Literacy in Clinical Psychological Education |
136 |
| Gerald E. Nissley, Jr. and Michael Atwood |
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| Section 4: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Story |
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| The Play’s the Thing! Theatre and Narrative Transportation in Education |
145 |
| Sally Bailey |
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| The Pedagogical Strategies of Implementing Story from a Feminist Perspective |
164 |
| Jennifer J. Mootz and Debra Mollen |
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| Storytelling through Pictures and Words: The Use of Comics for Teaching |
173 |
| Kris Gunawan and David E. Copeland |
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| Author Biographies |
182 |
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