Sharing stories: Learning with stories

Abstract

The e-kaavad is inspired by the thousand year old Kaavad storytelling tradition in Rajasthan, India. The Kaavad is a travelling temple that came to the village with the storyteller, as not everyone had access to a temple. The Kaavad is a story box that has several doors that open up to reveal painted stories from the 'Great' epics and the 'Little' traditions. As the story evolves, the teller opens one door at a time and reveals the next part of the story. The last door opens to reveal the presiding deities, which ends the story session. The inspiration is its form as well as what it stood for; to take the school to the children if they don't have access to the school themselves. This paper presents the process by which the e-kaavad has been developed in form and content and how it has been received so far. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.