Once again I V N S Raju sets off an interesting train of thought.
> In majority of the occasions adults use it as a trick to lull the
> kids to sleep, ignoring the fact that whatever is told would trigger
> a serious of thought processes and eventually end up in owing or
> disowning certain moral values/facts of life.
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> Such impacts some times can be ever lasting. Thus the
> teller of stories makes an impact with his knack of using story as a
> tool to trigger the behaviour he wanted from the Listener.
This reminded me about the many myths and legends which are perpetuated
within (and are about) my organisation and which are part of the
paradigm/culture. I realise how many of these as are taken as "fact". How
they are repeated as if the teller had personal knowledge of their veracity.
How they are embelished over time and, if I'm honest, how I am complicit in
leaving them untouched when they suit my purpose. In a LO context I now
wonder how many of these stories will need to be unpicked, challenged,
exposed and/or retained if we are to progress.
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