Narration is part of our daily life. “It is everywhere, and is fundamental to human understanding, communication and social interaction.” Narrative means “ a spoken or written account of connected events” (Oxford Dictionary). In recent years, narrative research has gained more importance in social sciences. For example, it is an important branch in history and is widely used as a source of historical events. Usage of narrative in teaching and research can bring new methods and ways of seeing oneself and society.
For teachers in order to find newer approaches in teaching and curriculum research is essential. “Curriculum became imagined not as a fixed entity but as currere, the Latin word meaning to run with, to run on a course, thereby forefronting action and becoming an integral component of action.” I believe for educators in order to enrich their perception of teaching, research should be an integral part of their activity. In conducting research narrative can play a fine role, since it is unique for everyone, it is partially imaginative, it is creative, and it can encourage students directly or indirectly to view the things from different angles. Also, for a teacher / researcher will crate a valuable opportunity to examine the effects of narrative in students.
Re-imagining Curriculum is a very interesting article which examines various approaches in research. I specially liked the part that talks about the practice of giving students the opportunity to choose their own curricular activities and most interestingly the result wasn’t a chaos in the classroom.
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