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Storytelling is the performance of fictional or nonfictional narratives which have an educational, inquiry, or sense-making intentionality. The performance of storytelling is ubiquitous and omnipresent, told and retold through anecdotes and life histories in conversations, as well as enshrined on stage in epic myths and legends. Within the context of sustainability and sustainable development, the intentionality of storytelling relates specifically to the Earth, its coinhabitants, and their relationality, as well as the temporal tensions or dangers of each of these dimensions (i.e., between the “here and now” and “the future”) (also see chapters on “Dimensions of Sustainability in Higher Education and Sustainability Literacy”).
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The use of stories in higher education crosses a number of sustainable development dimensions, including the...
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Wall, T., Rossetti, L., Hopkins, S. (2019). Storytelling for Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63951-2_381-1
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