ABSTRACT
Stories provide us with a particular perspective on situations. They also supply information about some of the people involved and reveal aspects of events that occurred. Tellers choose their selection of people and events, often unconsciously, to create particular scenarios or make specific points. To move to more comprehensive understandings of complex practice realities, it is helpful to examine events in greater detail. In this chapter, the sociocultural perspective (Vygotsky, 1978) is examined further, with specific focus on the impact context has on events and how interaction with others shapes outcomes. To learn from experience, stories that reveal contexts and interactions are explored through dialogue to enable insights to be shared and learning from events to be internalised. Story reconstructing, the fifth and final stage of our Reflective Learning through Storytelling Model, is demonstrated using a formalised group-storytelling process.
