Connected Learning: How Adults with Limited Formal Education Learn (American Society of Missiology Monograph Book 44)

by L. Lynn Thigpen

In considering other elements besides storying, Keysser recounted using the “acted out Word” successfully when preaching was not well received in New Guinea in the early part of the century.296 Moreover, Moon maintained we “look for discipling methods in all the wrong places” in dealing with oral learners.297 In his work with West Africans, Moon investigated the use of rituals.298 His dissertation researched using proverbs,299 and he quipped, “We become what we hum,” “rituals drive meaning to the bone,” and “drama stands the Word of God on its feet.”300 Similarly, McIntyre directed his dissertation toward using ceremonies with oral people in Bangladesh.301 In his popular work, Sample described living in an oral culture where importance was placed on “proverbs, stories, and relationships.”302