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Hi All,

There are a couple of interesting and potentially informative stories about the role of story telling in our lives and pick up almost exclusively on the affective role of creating a story from the events or facts at hand.
The cohort is folks with dementia, but the application is much more universally applicable with many parallels to informal education.  (I know this is going to sound like a joke, but it's not.)  I put it out there because of the controlled double blind nature of one of research papers,
and relevance to affective aspects of learning, and conversation.  No one ever fails a story, and I found the affective parallel between story telling and learning striking.


Alzheimer's Patients Turn To Stories Instead Of Memories : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/14/152442084/alzheimers-patients-turn-to-stories-instead-of-memories


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