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Successful 6th International Storyline Conference, Glasgow March 2015

Mar

2015

The conference attracted 250 delegates from 20 countries. It was sponsored by Glasgow Education Authority, Strathclyde University and Storyline International. A full report will be following to highlight the very positive response to the full programme. The organisers are greatly indebted to the many presenters for the high quality of all the presentations and the ...

Our Farm

Jan

2011

A Storyline Topic in a primary school in Pargas, Finland Ann-Catherine Henriksson The curriculum in year five in the primary school in Finland tells us to teach about how our food is produced and about the plants and the animals that provides us with food. Although we live in a small town many of the ...

Staffansby Primary School, Helsinki, Finland

Feb

2010

In 2009 the staff of Staffansby Primary School came on a study tour to Scotland. Although based in Edinburgh they made the trip through to Old Kilpatrick to see Storyline being used very successfully by the staff of Gavinburn Primary School in the District of West Dunbartonshire. They were so impressed by what they saw ...

Chydenius University, Kokkola, Finland

Feb

2010

33 Teachers from the Kokkola area of Finland attended this two day course on Storyline which was organised by Anette Dahlvik, Director of Inservice at the University. The new building provided a beautiful working environment for the participants. There was a wide variety of experience and interest in the group and several of those attending ...

Article in Finnish Journal

May

2007

Ann-Maj Björkell-Holm, who works for the Inservice department of the Åbo Akademi in Vasa, Finland, has written an article about the creative activities involved in working with a Storyline topic. This is published in the Åbo University’s Educational Journal which is interestingly named ‘Hett Stoff’ translated as ‘Hot Stuff’. The publication is dated 3-4/2002 and ...

Creative Dialogues – second language teaching

Jun

2005

The fourth transnational meeting of a Comenius Project entitled Creative Dialogues was held in the Buchanan Arms Hotel, Drymen, Scotland, from 20th to 24th April 2005. This group is engaged in developing Storylines for use in the second language teaching of English and German. The partners of the project Gisela Ehlers (Coordinator), IQSH, Kiel, Germany; ...

Storyline Study by Finnish Researcher

Jun

2005

Riikka Pyysalo is a Finnish PhD student in Education at the University of Cambridge, England. Her background is in educational studies, sociology and learning psychology and she completed her earlier studies at the University of Helsinki and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. While she has mainly pursued the research path she has always been interested in ...

New Book from Finland (in Swedish)

Jun

2001

Anna-Lena Östern, professor of mothertongue didactics in the Faculty of Education of the Åbo Akademi in Vasa, Finland,has written this new book on the teaching of mothertongue (Swedish) .It is published by Utbildningsstyrelsen, the Board of Education. In one of the chapters she describes using storyline in the teaching of mothertongue, and includes a story ...

Book: Svenska med sting | Anna-Lena Östern

May

2001

Svenska med sting. Didaktisk handledning med tyngdpunkt på modersmål, litteratur och drama. Anna-Lena Östern Utbildningsstyrelsen, 2001 ISBN- 952-13-1176-2 Svenska med sting är en inspirationsbok och en handledning för lärare och blivande lärare, i synnerhet för dem som arbetar som modersmåls- eller språklärare. Boken tar upp en mängd aspekter på svenska som modersmål, svenska språket, litteratur ...

History of Storyline in Finland to 2000

Jan

2000

The first connection with Finland was through Dr. Ria Heila-Ylikallio of the Faculty of Education in the Åbo Akademi in Vasa. She attended a short Storyline course in Jordanhill Campus around 1995 and became very interested on how the strategy could be adapted for teaching purposes in Finland. To develop this she arranged for a ...