Storytelling and Story-Acting Co-Construction in Action

Assignment Task 

Introduction

There is widespread recognition of the contribution that Paley’s work has made to our understanding of young children’s imaginative play and narrative engagement, with scholars pointing to her perceptive accounts of children’s story-making. Although Paley’s writing tends to focus on individual children’s journeys as tellers of tales, actors, and learners, she recognizes the co-construction of children’s stories and the complexities involved. Drawing on social constructivist theory, she argues that each story influences others and that children create a common classroom culture through the stories they dictate and enact with peers. Her work also shows how children incorporate popular cultural themes, characters and phrases into their tales, which are later repeated and modified in other children’s stories. She argues, however, that each child’s story remains original, preserving a style and symbolism that is ‘as unique as their fingerprints.

Notes

1. In the ‘Speech’ column, pauses of a second or more are indicated to the nearest second.

2. Emboldened text denotes emphasis in the practitioner’s voice.

3. As our analytical focus is on the gaze in this extract, we allocate this a separate column in the transcript.

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