How can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in Bangladesh?

Stories are considered to be the most popular form of lore, which can facilitate the moral and ethical deliberation of sustainability for our children. It is evident that children respond better to stories than any other form of communication. Once the stories end, the lessons remain. The values tan...

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Main Authors: Tasnim, Saria, Hossain, Amzad, Marinova, Dora
Format: Journal Article
Published: MDPI AG 2023
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93023
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author Tasnim, Saria
Hossain, Amzad
Marinova, Dora
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Hossain, Amzad
Marinova, Dora
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description Stories are considered to be the most popular form of lore, which can facilitate the moral and ethical deliberation of sustainability for our children. It is evident that children respond better to stories than any other form of communication. Once the stories end, the lessons remain. The values tangled with the lesson transmit as they grow. Stories have always been instrumental and the most conventional way of teaching values by using illustrations from our lives. The major aim of this paper is to explore the values expressed in Bengali childlore through stories and tales and develop a framework by using a scaffolding and mapping approach. This framework attempts to analyse two commonly recognised stories, namely “Shukhu and Dukhu” and “Jackal, The Judge”, by scaffolding them with the generally acknowledged principles of sustainability and mapping them to investigate how stories can influence children to build a pro-sustainability attitude. This approach has been chosen, as recent research already points out the issues in implementing sustainability in education, but no one has yet found the way forward. The premise at the core of this theoretical article is that an interdisciplinary approach and different pedagogical tools could help build the bridge towards implementing sustainability in education as well as in society.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-930232023-09-06T00:32:30Z How can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in Bangladesh? Tasnim, Saria Hossain, Amzad Marinova, Dora Stories are considered to be the most popular form of lore, which can facilitate the moral and ethical deliberation of sustainability for our children. It is evident that children respond better to stories than any other form of communication. Once the stories end, the lessons remain. The values tangled with the lesson transmit as they grow. Stories have always been instrumental and the most conventional way of teaching values by using illustrations from our lives. The major aim of this paper is to explore the values expressed in Bengali childlore through stories and tales and develop a framework by using a scaffolding and mapping approach. This framework attempts to analyse two commonly recognised stories, namely “Shukhu and Dukhu” and “Jackal, The Judge”, by scaffolding them with the generally acknowledged principles of sustainability and mapping them to investigate how stories can influence children to build a pro-sustainability attitude. This approach has been chosen, as recent research already points out the issues in implementing sustainability in education, but no one has yet found the way forward. The premise at the core of this theoretical article is that an interdisciplinary approach and different pedagogical tools could help build the bridge towards implementing sustainability in education as well as in society. 2023 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93023 10.3390/su151612620 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ MDPI AG fulltext
spellingShingle Tasnim, Saria
Hossain, Amzad
Marinova, Dora
How can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in Bangladesh?
title How can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in Bangladesh?
title_full How can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in Bangladesh?
title_fullStr How can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in Bangladesh?
title_full_unstemmed How can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in Bangladesh?
title_short How can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in Bangladesh?
title_sort how can stories in primary education supports sustainable development in bangladesh?
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93023