The educational storytelling project: three approaches to cross-curricular learning.

Three professors explicitly examined by what means educational dialogue and narrative informed their students' reading and writing experiences. In three introductory courses (composition, sociology, and literature), each taught in a developmental education unit within a large research university, learners wrote at least one story about "social ghosts" the lusty but usually unexamined forces that shape their everyday lives. The "ghost stories" and their telling were discussed as important indicators of students' educational histories. The power of these stories to