Buzzing About Bees: Exploring Active Storytelling for Transforming Children’s Environmental Agency, 2024

Portus, Rosamund (2025). Buzzing About Bees: Exploring Active Storytelling for Transforming Children’s Environmental Agency, 2024. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-857733

This ACCESS Network flex-fund project engaged primary school children with a dance and storytelling workshop about bee decline, using social science methods to examine the significance action-based storytelling as a tool for children’s environmental engagement and agency.

Through this work we: investigated how children reflected on their experience of engaging with action-based storytelling methods; critically evaluated action-based storytelling as a tool for developing children’s environmental engagement and agency; and explore avenues for future child-focused storytelling projects.

The findings of this work show that, having participated in the workshops, children expressed enthusiasm for further environmental learning, and reported increased levels of agency and intentions to engage with pro-environmental actions.

Data description (abstract)

This data is produced as a result of an ACCESS Network flex-fund project which engaged primary school children with a dance and storytelling workshop about bee decline.

Through this work we: investigated how children reflected on their experience of engaging with action-based storytelling methods; critically evaluated action-based storytelling as a tool for developing children’s environmental engagement and agency; and explore avenues for future child-focused storytelling projects.

The data was produced through surveys and recorded group discussions.

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