The Hero, the Student, and the Map
Narrative Inquiry in the Classroom While I've mentioned that I've got a bit of a blog "re-brand" coming up, potentially this April - and I use the term re-brand so loosely it's fluttering in the wind - there are a lot of topics I want to talk about right now. I was recently talking to a penpal and we brought up the importance of storytelling in education but also in creating our own personal narratives which lend meaning to our lives. I began thinking about how, exactly, I have used and plan to use storytelling as a medium of teaching in my elementary classroom. In the world of teaching, this alignment—where the lesson mirrors a story arc—is often explored through narrative pedagogy. It’s the art of treating the learning process as a lived story. Aside from the natural correspondence of the greater journey of learning that a student experiences to that of a reader as they embark on their own journey through a new world, there is a more localized analogy to be mad...
