Between Uncertainty and Resilience: Cultivating Imaginative Thinking Through Philosophical Storytelling

Sara AlHussien; Katrin Alt; Gordon Mitchell; Mina Hatem Ghanem

doi:10.15460/spsoz.2025.35.1.238

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Sara AlHussien
Katrin Alt HAW Hamburg
Gordon Mitchell German Jordanian University
Mina Hatem Ghanem German Jordanian University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15460/spsoz.2025.35.1.238

Schlagworte:

Creating stories for children, philosophical storytelling

Abstract

The article seeks to answer two questions: a) what happens when adults create stories for children? and b) How is philosophical storytelling experienced by both tellers and listeners?

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Sara AlHussien

AlHussien, Sara has a Bachelor’s degree in German and English (Language and Literature) from the University of Jordan (2021). After Working as a Freelance translator, she took the Soliya Advance facilitation training (2019), which launched her journey into working with INGOs like Soliya and World Learning in the field of intercultural communication, and conflict resolution. AlHussien’s research interest are in the topics of: language acquisition through reading, the effects of colonialism in language teaching and learning, and education and human development, sara bani hani

Katrin Alt, HAW Hamburg

Alt, Katrin, Dr. phil., Dipl. Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; since 2020 Professor at HAW Hamburg, Germany in the bachelor degree programme ‘Education in Childhood’; focus areas: Language education, Storytelling, Philosophizing with children.

Gordon Mitchell, German Jordanian University

Mitchell, Gordon is Professor Emeritus of the University of Hamburg in Germany and Visiting Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the German Jordanian University in Amman. Prior to that he was senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town, and director of Intercultural Resources, a Johannesburg based consultancy specialising in diversity education in the corporate world. He studied at Rhodes University, the University of South Africa, and Heidelberg University. His research and teaching focuses on the question of communication in a pluralistic environment. Through the work of the Art Peace Project, he has sought to identify ways in which the creative arts can provide a setting for learners to explore the intersections between biography, memory and place. Its emphasis is on tracing the educational potential of the creative arts within contexts characterised by high levels of societal conflict.

Mina Hatem Ghanem, German Jordanian University

Ghanem, Mina Hatem holds a M.A. in Social work; Refugees and Migration from the German Jordanian University. Mina is an instructor in the social work field at both the University of Jordan, and the German Jordanian University and specializes in protracted displacement areas. She is currently a junior health advisor in the field of mental health and psychosocial support at GIZ part of believing in international collaboration and its importance in developing communities. Her research focuses on Psychosocial Support, Social Work, Inclusion, and vulnerable communities in the Middle East. Mina expresses continuous research interest in all humanitarian areas especially those linked to innovative tools and entrepreneurship.

Between Uncertainty and Resilience

Cultivating Imaginative Thinking Through Philosophical Storytelling

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DOI:

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Autor/innen-Biografien

Sara AlHussien

Katrin Alt, HAW Hamburg

Gordon Mitchell, German Jordanian University

Mina Hatem Ghanem, German Jordanian University

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