The Story Worlds Project
Reimagining creative primary curriculum, pedagogy and assessment for future change makers
Why Story?
Stories help us to make sense of the world and ourselves. Through stories we can imagine new possibilities, develop active compassion and cultural understanding.
Co-created with teachers, artists and researchers across 2 years, this story world resource uses narrative inquiry, drama pedagogy, and storytelling to bring the curriculum to life. We call this pedagogy Drama Worldbuilding. This story world resource offers an imaginative and culturally relevant curriculum entry point for children ages 7-12 years, placing creativity, literacies, democratic learning, and wellbeing centrally, sharing research from across the project.
Children’s reflections on learning through story.
Why Now?
We need to create new ways to embed meaningful approaches to pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment in relation to Oracy. This includes reflecting the diversity of children within our classroom. Our project has co-created a dispositional model of Oracy assessment across 2 years with teachers, artists and children which focusses on collaboration, conflict resolution and socio-emotional literacy.
The Storyworld
Explore
Explore the story worlds by clicking through the lost map or through the navigation buttons at the bottom of the pages.