This term refers to learning environments where ICT tools are used to support and facilitate learning. Technology, however, is not the focus of the learning process, nor is it all a student needs to learn in such environments. The TELE is rather a scenario comprising learning objectives, tasks, learning materials, tutors, teachers, other students and technology. In this scenario learners can play an active role in their own learning process.
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Narrative Learning Environments
Giuliana Dettori (Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch076
Abstract
Narrative, in the form of stories and narrations, is a natural mode of communication and expression, familiar to children from a very early age and frequently used also by adults. For this reason, it has often been informally employed, both in and outside school, to facilitate understanding and raise learners’ interest, therefore supporting learning in both its cognitive and motivational aspects. For a long time, however, narrative was not an object of interest for the educational research. Its first systematic analyses were worked out within humanities studies, characterizing it in several different ways. Some of such definitions already highlight characteristics that appear crucial for its use in education. Ricoeur (1981), for instance, describes it as a sequence of events connected with each other by cause-effect relations supporting the construction of a meaningful totality out of a set of scattered events.