Three Strands in the Braid: A Guide for Enablers of Learning (Three Learning Stories)

By Paula Underwood

Designed to enhance the Three Learning Stories -- Who Speaks for Wolf, Winter White and Summer Gold, and Many Circles, Many Paths -- this book has evolved over a period of ten years as an aid to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879678004
• ISBN13: 9781879678002
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Tribe of Two Press, A
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the best guides for parents and teachers I've seen.

Paula Underwood was raised with input from both a Native American tradition and the "mainstream." She comes from a long line of oral storytellers and has decided to try to extend the wisdom and wonder of the oral stories to written form (for instance, in "Three Native American Learning Stories." As she sees (and perhaps you do too), this can be a challenge because the context of telling is different, as is the process, when one moves from face to face storytelling to the printed word . What she attempts to accomplish in her short guide is to help those who would facilitate learning through stories. She weaves together her own personal experiences, general principles of learning and psychology, and some powerful games and exercises to reproduce in modern settings some portion of what might have the original context of an oral storytelling tradition. I would recommend this and the three Native American Learning Stories for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in thinking about thinking. But I would also recommend the books for any manager, politician, or scientist with an open mind. The story, "Who speaks for wolf" e.g., though it may be ten thousand years old, is a dead-on, hard-hitting story that speaks to what goes wrong in modern software development, city planning, and fundamental research. Listen to her.