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THE NARRATIVE METHOD IN PEDAGOGY, POTENCIAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2012

Abstract

The narrative method is based on education through stories and imagination. The aim of this paper is to draw the reader's attention to the potential of narrativity in environmental education and in sustainable education as a supplement to the traditional paradigmatic mode.

Narratology is here discussed in its interdisciplinary overlap to pedagogy, namely to environmental education. The main research method is a survey of 100 respondents, mostly students of pedagogy and teachers and is supplemented by a synthetic-analytic research of relevant resource.

Most respondents find storytelling a very useful and effective teaching method and remember information presented through a story better than information presented as "bare facts". In conclusion, storytelling is an effective method and should be used more in all stages of education.