First of all, we should make it clear that "education" mentioned here is a big concept, covering moral cultivation, behavior cultivation, knowledge giving and receiving and so on. According to my original intention, I don't want to do this research. In my opinion, the key to teachers' professional growth lies in action, not in the discrimination of word concepts. It can be seen that the use of these three concepts in the education sector is quite arbitrary, so that the majority of teachers can not agree, leading to scattered power and difficult to go deep. I feel it is necessary to think and sort it out.

The emergence of the concept 1.

It is difficult and unnecessary to specify the exact time of their appearance. Generally speaking, the concept of "educational story" came into being first, followed by "educational case", and "educational narrative" only became popular in recent years.

2. Similarities and differences in content

All three are observations and records of typical education and teaching events, and they all need the theme, background and plot of the events. "Educational stories" and "educational narratives" record past events, and "educational cases" can be written in the past tense or the future tense, that is, commenting on the presupposition of an educational activity. The contents of "educational narrative" and "educational case" emphasize the truth of life, while "educational story" can be "eclectic and comprehensively summarized" without violating the logic of life, carrying out typical artistic treatment and pursuing artistic truth.

3. Focus of purpose

"Educational story" focuses on "recording", which helps people to understand the real situation of educational life in a specific period, find problems and understand the emotional imprint of teachers and students. Instead of directly talking about educational truth, it implies educational truth in educational conflicts, educational contradictions and educational dilemmas. "Educational case" and "educational narrative" focus on the thinking of teachers and students' behaviors and conflicts, and pay attention to the excavation of "educational significance" in order to promote the formation of teachers' "personalized" educational theory and the development of professional skills.

4. Structural arrangements

The text structures of the three are very flexible, but generally they are from narration to discussion. The texts of "educational story" and "educational narrative" are revived with the narrative of event situation as the main body; "Educational cases" are more research-oriented with the analysis and comments of events as the main body. The structure of "action research of educational narrative" generally only needs: event background+event description+brief rational reflection, which can be more emotional and even lyrical. The structure of educational cases generally needs to include: event background+event description+event analysis (multi-level and multi-angle)+case enlightenment (based on the event itself and beyond the event itself, do some rational reflection in a general sense), of course, event analysis and enlightenment can also be written together. Reflection must be comprehensive and profound, with more emphasis on rationality.

5. Application of skills

"Educational story" mainly adopts narrative description, which needs scene description, psychological description, language description, action description and so on. The author doesn't comment and name the topic directly, but the subjective tendency is contained in the conflict of events, which makes readers think and judge right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, good and evil; "Educational narrative" mainly adopts the methods of narration and discussion, and emphasizes the vividness of plot, contradictions and conflicts, characterization of characters and emotional rendering like "educational story", but discusses "cherishing ink as gold" and "following the course" and pays attention to the significance of events. "Educational cases" mainly adopt narrative description, explanation and discussion, focusing on discussion and explanation and paying attention to comprehensive and profound analysis.