1st Edition
The Power of Storytelling in Teaching Practices Narratives from Hong Kong and Afar
Introduction
1. The intro-spectator, the agent and the collaboration-maker: Storytellers in the time of pandemonium
Dean A. F. Gui
Part 1: Personal Narratives and Transformation: The Introspective Storyteller
2. The power of teacher narrative: Critical incidents as an impetus for teacher professional development
Icy Lee
3. "Jump off the building, commit suicide!": A sombre journey towards trust, self-importance, storytelling, and collaborative teaching and learning in Hong Kong through a proposed i.e. poetic-memoir
Dean A. F. Gui
Part 2: Repurposed Narratives and Participation: The Agentive Storyteller
4. Empathy, rhetoric and dramatic speech writing
Jason E. H. Lee
5. The department poet: On institutional demands, on writing from the heart
Eddie Tay
Part 3: Inter-Narratives and Development: The Collaborative Storyteller
6. "Before the Law" Merging process drama with creative writing in new media
Dora Wong
7. Crisis pedagogy in creative writing: Emergency, expedience, hindsight, reckoning
Marshall Moore and Adrian Markle
Conclusion
8. A new story in the making: Problems, perspectives, pedagogies, practices and prospect
Dora Wong
Biography
Dean A. F. Gui is an ELC Instructor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a doctoral candidate under the supervision of Dr. Jason S. Polley (HKBU), examining the transformative physical world potential of virtual world poetry. His most recent publication is Poetry in Pedagogy (Routledge, 2021), co-edited with Jason S. Polley.
Dora Wong teaches at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her teaching and research focus on bilingual creative and journalistic writings, and translation studies. She has published on digital storytelling and the use of peer assessment in L2 writing training. Her recent passion is translating and writing picture books.
