EDAC 634 Spring 2020 Narrative Learning

Narrative Learning for the Adult A Literature Review Alexander J. Davis Ball State University EDAC 634 – The Adult as a Learner Date: February 16, 2020 Table 1. Review and comments on other students’ work Name Commented On Alex Davis Introduction             From the historical traditions of passing information down through oral interpretation to the sharing of tweets, statuses, and long passages in the modern technological age, humans have always used storytelling to teach, share, and receive information. Unsurprisingly, this is also prevalent educational pedagogy, and this method is useful in the classroom for adult learners. Narrative-based learning is an education theory suggesting that people define their experiences within the context of stories – which serve as both a cognitive structure and a means of communication, as well as assist people in frami...

Narrative Learning Literature Review Written By Commented On Joshua Robinson Kaylah Bell Introduction A glance around oneself can reveal the unbelievable amount of information that people are constantly consuming. A smartphone is likely in close proximity to whoever is reading this literature review, just as it was inches away from the laptop of the graduate student who wrote this paper. Texts, breaking news, and social media updates are merely a sliver of the information circulating throughout society, and stories are the threads that tie it all together. As Anglo-Afghan author Tahir Shah famously wrote in his book In Arabian Nights , “Stories are a communal currency of humanity” (2009, p. 138). Narratives are an intrinsic element of the human experience, so their presence should be an intrinsic element of adult education as well. General Themes Not to be written off solely as sources of entertainment or dispensa...