Open AccessThe Story as a Palliative for the Loss of Learning in a Specific Audience: The Case of Visually Impaired Students
Author(s) -
Houssem Guedich,
Mohamed Msalmi,
Ayman Guemri,
Olfa Tounsi,
Mourad Bahloul
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of advances in education and philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2523-2665
pISSN - 2523-2223
DOI - 10.36348/jaep.2022.v06i01.003
Subject(s) - storytelling , session (web analytics) , context (archaeology) , reading (process) , narrative , psychology , test (biology) , club , mathematics education , pedagogy , computer science , medicine , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , anatomy , world wide web , biology
This study is interested in the question of learning scientific knowledge related mainly to environmental education in an informal education setting through a sample composed of visually impaired students (14 students), belonging to a Club of environmental education at the ATEEA headquarters, in the region of Sfax. Six stories and six knowledge / understanding tests on various environmental themes were administered during six sessions. Each session was spread over 3 moments, namely a pretest evaluating initial knowledge; recitation of the story (by the storytelling technique in the experimental group (N = 7) and by the reading technique in the control group (N = 7) and finally a post-test involving the same concepts mentioned in the preliminary test. Analysis of the mean scores between pre-tests and post-tests shows a significant improvement in correct answers for students in both groups. On the other hand, the students of the storytelling group showed a significantly higher performance than that of the students of the reading group at the level of the correct answers to the causal propositions. Thus, the storytelling methods made it possible to compensate for the loss of learning leading to the understanding of the different narrative texts recited in the experimental group. The study recommended using stories and the practice of storytelling in school and out-of-school context (clubs, sequences recorded on educational platforms, etc.) in order to remedy the learning loss for visually impaired students in a particular way and for other students in general.