Narratives and their significance for children's communication about their world

Anna Klerfelt (1)

1 Department of Education

In this article I will give a description and a definition of narrative through historical review. This forms a background to my other purpose, to describe and discuss the importance of using storytelling as a tool for meaning making for the individual. In this text I will also raise the significance of stories as a tool for society to mediate culturally important messages to the individual and thereby shed light upon the dialectics between the individual and the collective.

Keywords: narrative; reconstruction; socionarratology

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Technology for Human Learning

Anna Klerfelt. Narratives and their significance for children's communication about their world. 2005. ⟨hal-00190634⟩