Using a Narrative Tool to Help Quebec English-Speaking Students Produce Personal Histories of Belonging

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Using a Narrative Tool to Help Quebec English-Speaking Students Produce Personal Histories of Belonging
Abstract
The authors introduce Jörn Rüsen’s concept of narrative competence as a useful pedagogical framework for operationalizing a remedial narrative tool designed to help make room for Quebec’s English-speaking minority in the teaching of school history. Developed through empirical research and representing a schema-like narrative structure, the Narrative Template Tool’s aim is to assist students to produce and validate personal (his)stories of belonging through conducting original historical research. To counter the dangers of indoctrination, the tool employs a feature of the orientation component of narrative competence—use-of-history—as a means of helping students account for their emerging perspectives.
Publication
LEARNing Landscapes Journal
Volume
Vol. 11
Issue
no. 2
Pages
365-379
Date
2018
Language
en
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Zanazanian, Paul, and Nathalie Popa. “Using a Narrative Tool to Help Quebec English-Speaking Students Produce Personal Histories of Belonging.” LEARNing Landscapes Journal Vol. 11, no. 2 (2018): 365–379. https://learninglandscapes.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/969.
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