The Evolving World of Storytelling in Pre-school Education

Abstract

In the last twenty years not only have methodological concepts become more differentiated, but due to psychology and pedagogy the system of methods has become more clearly divided. It is evident that in both kindergartens and schools there is even a greater emphasis on the more deliberate use of already well-known methods and resources, however, it is also essential to be open to new ones and to embrace them. Since playing is a primary activity for preschool children and stories provide a natural medium for them, it has become crucial to reform literary education to reflect this. However, new methods should be adopted into the methodology of mother tounge education with appropriate caution and a determined tempo. The study identifies a third type of the productive storytelling possibilities: the play-based storytelling. In addition, it groups the different storytelling options that are so far uncategorized but already used in kindergartens and identifies their differences. Finally, the study integrates the latest storytelling methods (interactive storytelling) into the existing framework of storytelling methods.