Overview
In his successful Creative Storytelling,
Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for
self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out,
this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote
learning and testing and for the positive force within storytelling and
creative drama during the K-12 years. For the past four years, Jack
Zipes has worked with the Neighborhood Bridges Program of the Children's
Theatre Company of Minneapolis, taking his storytelling techniques into
inner-city schools. Speaking Out is in part a record of the
transformations storytelling can work on the minds and lives of young
people. But it is also a vivid and exhilarating demonstration of a
different kind of education - one built from deep inside each child. Speaking Out
is a book for storytellers, educators, parents, and anyone who cares
about helping kids find within themselves the keys to imagination.