Narration and pedagogy: epistemological elements, backgrounds and development of narrative pedagogy

Abstract

Narrative pedagogy recognizes the power of word signification configured in stories which make people related to school think, specially teachers, in order to promote his/her transformation and educational work. Narrative is a type of discourse characterized by being self referential, temporal and communicative. It has the ability to tell something to somebody so in specific circumstances he/she can judge him/herself and produce, most of the times, a change. As narrative makes a rescue of human being subjectivity and his own life experiences, narrative pedagogy can make, among different alternatives, a rescue of the teacher and his life experiences in the complex life of school, a world that is shared with others who are ready to listen and be touched by those stories.