First, what is educational narrative research?
Educational narrative research means that researchers express their understanding and explanation of education by narrating and telling stories. The writing process of educational narrative is a process of monitoring, analyzing and adjusting one's own education and teaching, and a process of more thorough self-reflection and self-training. Its purpose is to conduct research for its own education and teaching. It is an effective way for teachers to seek active professional development based on educational practice and an effective mechanism to promote teachers' professional development.
Second, what characteristics should cases in educational narrative research have?
First, authenticity. The case must be true, and it must be a process experienced by teachers and students together. Fictional stories cannot be studied as educational narratives.
Second, the story. The case should have characters, events, plots, certain educational and teaching conflicts and problems, lively and interesting, and readable. In this sense, educational narrative is a unique narrative of education and teaching, rather than an educational and teaching paper or an explanatory article on educational and teaching design.
Third, enlightening. The case should have a theme or main line to connect the stories together, not rambling. This theme should be inspiring and thought-provoking.
Fourth, research. There should be reflective research by the author in the case. This kind of reflective research briefly expounds his rational perception, experience and unique understanding after experiencing this story by making the finishing point.
Third, how should educational narrative research be carried out?
1. Learn to accumulate and form the habit of writing education and teaching diaries and essays.
As long as we carry out education and teaching activities, as long as we deal with children with rich emotions and sensitive hearts, all kinds of stories will certainly happen in our education and teaching life. Record these scattered education and teaching events at any time, so there may be many wonderful cases hidden in them.
2. Learn to discover. The stories recorded in our education and teaching diaries and essays are not all meaningful. We should sort it out regularly, be good at finding valuable stories from it and conduct reflective research. Of course, we don't necessarily study all the successful education and teaching stories, and many failed education and teaching stories may also have the value of reflection and give people more enlightenment.
3. Learn to write. Educational narrative research generally includes two parts: case and reflection. Cases occupy a large space, and reflection occupies a small space. There are many similarities between educational narrative writing and narrative writing: there are people, time, place and events, which constitute a certain plot; Special attention should be paid to vivid images in narrative plots. Different from narrative writing, educational narrative should add reflection. Although the space of reflection is small, it is the focus of educational narrative research. Its function is to make the finishing point: to reveal the educational wisdom and thoughts contained in the story with concise language. Reflection doesn't have to be all-encompassing. You can grasp the most important point, extend it and dig deeper.
4. What are the contents of educational narrative research?
1. Study teachers' educational thoughts
2. Study teachers' educational activities
3. Study teachers' educational goals.
5. What is the significance of educational narrative research to teachers? Educational narrative research is the most suitable research method for teachers' personal operation. Educational research in the traditional sense starts from rationality and seeks examples for educational theory in practice; Educational narrative research is based on sensibility and refines educational and teaching viewpoints from practice. Obviously, the latter is more suitable for teachers who work in the front line of teaching. The vigorous implementation of the new curriculum reform requires every teacher to be both a practitioner and a researcher of the curriculum reform, and educational narrative research has undoubtedly become the best way for teachers to intervene in the new curriculum research. At the same time, educational narrative research is also the best carrier for teachers to improve their own quality. Teachers are very busy, so it is difficult to improve themselves by systematic theoretical research, and the threshold for entering educational narrative research is much lower. Because everyone has a story about education and teaching, everyone can tell a story about education and teaching, pick up a pen, record the story that happened in their own education and teaching at any time and conduct reflective research. If you persist for a long time, you will not only sublimate your understanding of education and teaching, improve your daily education and teaching level, but also promote your writing level to a new level. The accumulation of a period of time, touching or thought-provoking cases, not only vividly recorded the trajectory of their own development and growth, but also filled their hearts with a sense of accomplishment and success! In this way, we can grow with students and new courses.