Bruner’s Narrative Construction of Self and Its Curricular Implication
AUTHORS
Hyeon-Suk Kang,Kyungpook National University
Ji-Eun Yi,Daegu National University of Education
ABSTRACT
This study tries to discuss the nature of narrative construction of self and to suggest its curricular implication. Existing viewpoint of the self-making is generally based on inner psychic process of isolated individual. In view of inner psychic self, we usually behave and think with mental process imbedded with locked heads. If so, the curriculum development should focus on the development of inner mental process. But there is a sort of different stance of self-making with narrative. Through narrative, we construct who we are and who I am. Self is constructed by the agent’s narrative. According to Hopkins, narrative premises transactional self. Narrative as an alternative tool for organizing experience in which students construct and share their (storied) selves provides the structure for a development self. In the future, we pay attention to self-making with narrative and storied narrative.
KEYWORDS
narrative, self, self-making, narrative self, Bruner
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