Story-telling is frequently a lost art in the engineering classroom. Often, engineering educators feel that telling stories is a distraction to communicating the necessary content of a course. In contrast, this paper describes story-telling as an improvement to traditional teaching techniques. Story-telling may be used as a method to illustrate important points, give coherent meaning to seeming...

People retell events for different reasons. Sometimes they try to be accurate, other times entertaining. What characterizes retellings from different perspectives? How does retelling perspective affect later recall of events? In the current research, participants retold a story either three times or not at all. By instruction, retellings were either entertaining or accurate. Compared to accurat...

This chapter discusses narrative intelligence in the context of the origins of primate (social) intelligence. The relationship between social intelligence and narrative intelligence is outlined, with a particular emphasis on 1) the phylogenetic origins of primate (narrative) intelligence, and 2) the ontogenetic origin of autobiographical stories. The chapter is based on the assumption that in o...

In this paper, we describe an architecture for supporting and guiding children story-creation activities. Stories and story telling activities are present in all children developmental stages, assuming distinct roles in each stage. Within the scope of this research, our target population is children aged 7-9 years old, within the portuguese education context within which we are working, for who...

We shall start by telling tile story of the discovery of the Dirac equation. There is no better way of telling it than in the words of the protagonists themselves and this is the way we shall do it. In this, we are greatly helpe.d by the excellent book "Inward Bound" by Abraham Pals (Pals 1986). Almost all our quotations are taken from this source. Every serious student of physics must read thi...