Narrative Learning Environments

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Author(s): Giuliana Dettori (Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 9
Source title: Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Antonio Cartelli (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy)and Marco Palma (University of Cassino, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch076

Keywords: Information Resources Management / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science

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Abstract

Narrative, in the form of stories and narrations, is a natural mode of communication and expression, familiar to children from a very early age and frequently used also by adults. For this reason, it has often been informally employed, both in and outside school, to facilitate understanding and raise learners’ interest, therefore supporting learning in both its cognitive and motivational aspects. For a long time, however, narrative was not an object of interest for the educational research. Its first systematic analyses were worked out within humanities studies, characterizing it in several different ways. Some of such definitions already highlight characteristics that appear crucial for its use in education. Ricoeur (1981), for instance, describes it as a sequence of events connected with each other by cause-effect relations supporting the construction of a meaningful totality out of a set of scattered events.

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