tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post6449932803163794488..comments2024-03-19T02:14:31.704-04:00Comments on <center>OnFiction</center>: Perspective and NarrativeKeith Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-49558242993515863442009-09-14T22:58:57.613-04:002009-09-14T22:58:57.613-04:00Thank you very much, Cora, for this comment. I thi...Thank you very much, Cora, for this comment. I think the link that Julie Comay has found between theory of mind skills and story-telling is very interesting. Generally, performance in theory of mind tasks has been found to affect measures of social abilities in children, but it has more difficult to establish effects in the opposite direction; that is to say strong effects of social engagement on children's theory of mind have been hard to find. So if Comay and Thelander do find effects of encouraging story-telling in children, that would be very encouraging.Keith Oatleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-19951170834462512242009-09-14T22:41:20.880-04:002009-09-14T22:41:20.880-04:00I find this fascinating, especially considering th...I find this fascinating, especially considering that elementary school lessons are often structured to deliberate suppress storytelling abilities or at least not nurture them. Hence, children are endlessly asked to retell a given story instead of telling their own stories, stories should be about something that happened to the child, too much creativity in assignments is punished, etc...<br /><br />Maybe this research will make educators reconsider the approaches to children's storytelling in the classroom.Cora Buhlerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03868233120931184399noreply@blogger.com