Curriculum as Narration: Tales from the Children of the Colonised

Autor/inn/en	Goodson, Ivor; Crick, Ruth Deakin
Titel	Curriculum as Narration: Tales from the Children of the Colonised
Quelle	In: Curriculum Journal, 20 (2009) 3, S.225-236 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0958-5176
Schlagwörter	Learning Strategies; Learning Processes; Secondary School Students; Rural Schools; Foreign Countries; Inquiry; Personal Narratives; Teaching Methods; Curriculum; Indigenous Populations; Foreign Policy; Social Systems; Self Concept; Metacognition; Program Descriptions; Racial Discrimination; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Learning process; Lernprozess; Sekundarschüler; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Ausland; Erlebniserzählung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Sinti und Roma; Außenpolitik; Social system; Soziales System; Selbstkonzept; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Racial bias; Rassismus; Australien
Abstract	This article will explore the centrality of narrative in both the process and the content of enquiry-based learning, as a formative process which does not predetermine either its starting point or its outcome. Rather, it takes as its starting point the agency and life narrative of the learner and builds from this to a formally assessed outcome. It will argue for the importance of what one of us has coined "narrative learning" (Goodson 2006, 2009). The article will draw upon a research project in New South Wales in which this archaeological pedagogy and curriculum were studied and evaluated with, and by, a cohort of previously disengaged students. These students are from an Indigenous community devastated by dispossession and colonisation. Their stories and those of their mentors will be used to explain, expand and ground our argument. They demonstrate how the curriculum becomes a "narratable pathway" towards the formation of identity and agency when "knowing as storying" is valued, promoted and represented. Narratives provide and create space for "pedagogic moments" in which people can connect with themselves, their own culture and tradition, their hopes and aspirations and ultimately with an intentional, mentored construction of knowledge which serves their personal and public trajectories. The article makes use of Bateson's three levels of learning and builds on concepts of learning how to learn, by linking this with the "person" who is learning, their selfhood and agency, and their need for meaning-making and purpose as a foundation for engagement. (Contains 1 figure and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10