Key Idea: Narrative Learning
Narrative Learning highlights the role of narrative and narration in an individual learning and an understanding of how they act in the world. The ‘interior conversations’ whereby a person defines their personal thoughts and courses of action and creates their own stories and life missions, is situated at the heart of a person’s map of learning and understanding of their place in the world. Narrative learning as a concept seeks to shift the focus of learning from the prescriptiveness of a strongly defined curriculum to accommodate personal narrative styles and thereby encouraging engagement and motivation in the learning process. Hence narrative learning is a concept, if embraced, has radical and far reaching implications for existing government policies on curriculum.
References:
Goodson, I. F., Biesta, G., Tedder, M., & Adair, N. (2010). Narrative Learning. London and New York: Routledge.
Improving Learning through the Lifecourse: Learning Lives
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Narrative Learning
Read about Narrative Learning in the chapter: Towards a Theory of Narrative Learning:- In the foregoing chapters we have presented and reflected upon the stories from eight individuals who took part in the Learning Lives project. Our...
- Richard Hoggart has written autobiographically about his own impulse, his own ‘push for meaning outside the day to day’ (Hoggart 1958
- Narrative quality, narrative learning, and the question of action Narrative learning can be evidenced in the substance of the narrative but...
- But as we have seen, the narrative resources that people have available differ widely in their characteristics – their narrative quality...
- Our cases provide ample evidence of reflection on, storying about and re-storying of the self. We saw this, for example, in the case of...
- Paul Larsen remains an important exception to all this because whilst there is ongoing narration that is clearly focused on the self – and...
- The complex ecology of narrative learning Our case studies leave us with a complex ecology of narratives and narration as would be expected...
- The complex ecology of narrative learning Our case studies leave us with a complex ecology of narratives and narration as would be expected...
- At its best narrative learning provides a suitable model for learning through the life-course, for the development of a nuanced and flexible...
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Narrative Learning highlights the role of narrative and narration...