PhD ← Storyline Scotland

PhD Extract

Mar

2014

Developing language creativity of preschool children by using “Storyline” and “Associations Pyramid” methods Joanna Smogorzewska In the experimental study, in which a comparison of three educational methods was conducted, 157 children from Warsaw preschools took part. Main aims of the study were: conducting an analysis of five year old children linguistic creativity in respect ...

Dr Ifigenia Iliopoulou, University of Volos, Greece

Nov

2012

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Ifigenia Iliopoulou, of the University of Volos, Greece, who has recently completed her PhD studies. She has been using Storyline in the area of Environmental Education with teachers in Kindergarten and in the Early Stages of Primary School. In 2003 she wrote the first book on Storyline for teachers in Greece. She ...

Dr Sharon Ahlquist

Nov

2011

University of Kristianstad, Sweden It is with great pleasure that we announce that Sharon has been awarded a Doctorate in Education from the University of Leicester with a study called: The impact of the Storyline approach on the young language learner classroom: a case study in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to identify in what ...

Congratulations to Dr Wendy Emo

Oct

2011

Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA I completed my doctorate through University of York in fall 2010. The topic was teachers’ innovations; I interviewed 22 teachers regarding their innovations and followed another 8 teachers (primary, secondary, and university) as they innovated with Storyline and repeated their Storylines. The teachers all found that there were many more ...

Association for Development of Early Childhood Education in Turkey

Mar

2010

Spring Conference, Ankara University Prof. Dr. Gelengül Haktanır, Executive Committee Chair of the above association had come into contact with Storyline through the interest of her PhD student Sule Tepetas. While an Erasmus scholar working in teaching practice in Halmstad, Sweden, Sule had observed Storyline in action. She was attracted to the approach and decided ...

Doctorate Success for Rhonda

Jan

2010

Congratulations Rhonda Mitchell-Barrett who will receive her doctorate in January Her thesis was based on an analysis of the Storyline method in primary school; its theoretical underpinnings and its impact on pupils’ intrinsic motivation. This study explored the relationship between the Scottish Storyline teaching method and pupils’ levels of motivation when engaged in a Storyline ...

Medical Research & Storyline

Jul

2009

Edith Mark PhD, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University, Denmark Some years ago I became interested in the use of narrative to help encourage children to communicate in situations where we were discussing sensitive issues. Shortly afterwards I read about the Storyline approach to education. I noticed that an American workshop course was being run by Storyline ...

Greek Storyline Website

Feb

2009

Ifigenia Iliopoulou, a PhD student in the University in Volos, has recently created a Storyline website at ifigenia-istoriogrammi.blogspot.com Ifigenia took her Master’s degree some years ago in Strathclyde University, Glasgow and hopes to complete her Doctorate this summer. She is the author of the first Storyline Book in Greek and has used the approach in ...

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 ...

Project Management using Storyline

Jun

2004

The three PhD student/lecturers pictured from the left, Markus Hällgren, Niklas Wahlström and Andreas Nilsson work in Umeå School of Business, Umeå University and are responsible for the designing of a new 20-week distance learning course on Project Management together with Tomas Blomquist, Ph.D who is missing from the picture. Some years ago Markus attended ...