Author/Editor: Marrie Beatie
Sense Publishers, 2009
Chapter 5:
“The Power of Stories: Tracing the Creating Thread and Healing the Self Whole”
by: Carly Stasko
The Quest for Meaning: Teaching, Learning and the Arts presents a narrative, arts-based approach to pedagogy and research in higher education. Through narratives of experience, the book offers revealing, poignant examples of the transformative power of the arts and of narrative inquiry in learners’ lives, and of the centrality of story in their ongoing quest for meaning.