Using Stories for Community Health and Development in Oral Cultures
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Church Planting Strategies for Oral Cultures
Tim BrownvisionSynergy -- T4 Global -- International Orality Network
Using Stories for Community Health and Development in Oral Cultures
What are these?Oral learners are more event-oriented and concrete-oriented. We from book cultures often think abstractly. This is a circle. No, its a pizza!
Which item doesnt belong?
Which item doesnt belong?
We need to radically RETHINK how we do mission work in oral cultures.
Okay, lets have some fun. Here are a couple of exercises for us. Three approachesTeach them to readOralize literate teaching/Audio recordings/films Start fresh Orality6Communication/Learning StylesLiterate/Book and Oral/TraditionalLectureOutlineSummarizeDivide into partsStudy/ReferenceIndividualAbstract KnowledgeRepetitionNarrativeEventsStories, drama, musicParticipationCommunity/DiscussionConcrete ExperienceWe often do teaching and preaching based on single verses of the Bible, or take a bunch of verses from different chapters and books of the Bible and relate them to a topic. In oral cultures, its much better to use the stories of the Bible. 75% of the Bible is narrative its stories!Keys for Working in Oral CulturesUnderstand Oral CulturesNative Language/Mother TongueOral arts:StoryMusicDramaDiscussion and dialogue
So how does this work?
So how does this work?Identify a topic(s)Community health and social issuesCollect informationIdentify what needs to be remembered/recalledDevelop a story/narrative that is:Scientifically AccurateCulturally AppropriateClearly communicates
An ExampleMalariaSymptomsTreatmentPrevention
For more information:Tim [email protected] BrownInternational Orality NetworkOral Arts/[email protected]