by Nancy King
Anna Baum, a teacher in a posh private school finds herself wondering how she grew up an outsider, lost her stories, chose a profession she didn't want, and married charming but abusive Max. Life changes when Anna begins teaching emotionally disturbed preschoolers. A potent nightmare and illness, as well as two hospital nurses who breach her protective wall, help her confront the reality of her life. The transformation is profound and powerful. |
A Woman Walking
by Nancy King
In this timeless folktale, Ninan inherits an unwelcome legacy. She is told
by her parents that she must become a traveling storyteller like her grandfather.
On each step of her journey, she tells a unique and universal story. As she
walks from village to village telling stories, Ninan learns that every story
is a kind of gentle magic, and she embraces her life as a woman walking. |
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Self-Discovery through Stories
Nancy King |

Language and Learning in the Classroom
Nancy King, University of Delaware
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| Storymaking
enables us to experience the healing power of stories, to evoke
new questions, reflect on past experience, and imagine new possibilities.
Sharing stories creates community by helping us connect to each
other in meaningful ways.
Dancing With Wonder: Self-Discovery Through stories
is a book of and about stories, designed to enable readers to
explore and tell their own stories whether they are autobiographical,
creative, or some mixture of the two. The stories and activities
in this book are designed to encourage readers to embark on their
own storymaking journeys with and without the company of others.
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Read a Blogcritics Magazine review
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/05/
05/215448.php
Listen to a radio Interview with Diego Mulligan
The Journey Home (KSFR 90.7 FM) 13.Feb.06
RealAudio • MP3
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Art Tour Santa Fe (KTRC 1260 AM) 12.14.05
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For years, Nancy King
has used the arts - drama, poetry, imagemaking, movement, storymaking,
and music - as the core of her classroom work. She stresses the
process of "making" - painting, sculpting, writing,
moving, etc. - to help us connect who we are with what we think,
feel, and know. She also recognizes the pleasure and self-esteem
that children can derive from ownership, from being able to say
"I made this."
In this book, teachers and those working with children
will find ways to use the arts to teach language arts. The activities
are designed to help teachers consciously and deliberately discover
ways to connect what we learn to who we are. And to do it in ways
that best facilitate learning. |
Dancing with Wonder
is available online through Amazon.com,
through your local bookseller. Purchase here through PayPal for $15.00 plus Priority shipping (retails for $16.00). |
Playing Their
Part is available online at http://www.heinemanndrama.com/
products/08672.aspx |
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An Approach to Teaching Language and Literature at the Secondary
and Postsecondary Levels
Nancy King, University of Delaware |

Alida
Gersie and Nancy King |
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Teachers
face enormous problems trying to motivate students who don't like
to read. In this book, Nancy King shows how storymaking and drama
are powerful ways to engage students as they read novels, plays,
poetry, and autobiography, and how both students and teachers
benefit from educational opportunities based on dialogue rather
than lecture.
In Storymaking and Drama teachers
will find thoughtful, practical, inventive, and creative ways
to explore literature and drama in the classroom. The author has
included many stories from around the world to make the book a
joy to read and to help stimulate the development of new ideas
for classroom educational practice. |
Myths and
related stories describe essential human experience which, requiring
use of the imagination, reconcile and give voice to fantasy and
reality. Speaking through images which embrace the paradox of
possible and impossible, the likely and the desired, they stimulate
our personal expressive abilities in a way quite distinct from
the absorption of prescribed images which television and radio
present. This book is concerned with rekindling that creative
power of the human imagaination which in the West has atrophied
through neglect. It is concerned with increasing an understanding
of the need to exercise our imagination as one of our psychic
functions, as well as the need to exercise our bodies as one of
our physical functions.
This book contains myths and tales
from all over the world which are grouped around seven themes,
all reflective of forms of human experience. The authors suggest
ways in which these myths and tales can be used to develop our
imagination's original and unique voice through educational and
therapeutic encounter, and how this expression can be communicated
to others who are engaged in the same task. |
Storymaking
and Drama is available online through Amazon.com |
Storymaking
in Education and Therapy is available online at :http://www.jkp.com/
catalogue/book.php/isbn/1-85302-520-8 |
Other books
written by Nancy King include:
Theatre
Movement: The Actor and His Space. Drama Book Specialists. 1971.
Giving
Form to Feeling. Drama Book
Specialists. 1975.
A
Movement Approach to Acting. Prentice
Hall. 1981.
Her essay, Growing Stories: Towards a Story-based Curriculum, is included in The Storytelling Classroom: Applications across the Curriculum.
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