A Study on Writing Education Methods for Flexibility of Thinking: Focusing on Active Storytelling

Abstract

This study attempted to devise a writing method that assists internal growth from a self-oriented perspective among the fields of writing education using storytelling. Specifically, among the subcategories of storytelling, active storytelling was applied to examine writing education methods that help flexible thinking, an indicator of internal growth. First, the self-narratives was completed and reviewed by applying the Big Blur characteristics of active storytelling. At this time, emotional ventilation was used to select the original story. Next, the multi-path characteristics of active storytelling were applied to help flexibility of thinking. The XY thinking experiment was used as a recognition conversion technique for multipath generation. As a result, irrational and rigid thinking was confirmed in the contents of the Emotional Ventilation Act and the first self-narratives. Subsequently, the XY thinking experiment confirmed the movement of rigid perception. Finally, as a result of analyzing the first generated single path and the subsequent generated multi-path using the REBT technique, significant flexibility of thinking was confirmed. This study accumulated the method and possibility of qualitative analysis evaluation by analyzing and applying the dimension of flexibility of thinking among the indicators of internal growth through writing education. However, due to the limited case of focusing on individual thinking flexibility, categorization has limitations. In the future, writing education methods from a self-oriented perspective should be accumulated through continuous research.