APP7

Application Assignment: Narrative Learning 

People grow up hearing stories from friends and family members that depict events that influenced their lives in powerful ways. Many or all of you most likely have told similar tales in order to share from your experience with others. This is narrative teaching and learning and it can play a powerful role in teaching people about themselves, each other, and the world in which they live. In this Application Assignment, you will become more familiar with your own learning by examining and sharing a narrative story you have experienced. You will also consider how narrative learning may impact your practice as an educator of adults.

For this assignment, respond to the following:

• Think back throughout your life and remember the narrative stories that you heard—stories about your family, friends, yourself. Think about stories told to you by family and friends. Choose one story from which you learned something in your adult life. Share this story and explain what you learned and why. Identify the source of this narrative learning. What are its roots? What is its context? To what degree has it evolved or changed over time?
  
  
• After thinking about the narrative stories you have heard and told, and the role they have played in your life, to what extent do you believe narrative learning has a place in adult learning? Explain. How might you use narrative learning in your practice as an adult educator?

Be specific and provide concrete examples. Refer to this week's Learning Resources. Use required course materials to support what you are saying and cite in APA format. Include Optional Resources from the Resource Page or other resources that you have found on your own—as additional creditable sources to qualify for an A.

To earn a grade of A: Use creditable sources in addition to course videos and required readings and cite in APA format. Include additional resources and not just required resources. On the Resource Page each week: The Learning Resources are divided into three areas: Required Reading, Media, and Optional Resources (supplemental). Optional Resources (supplemental) count as additional resources.

The following Internet resources are unacceptable for citation purposes: *Walden does not allow the following for graduate school. Please use a scholarly, professional, reliable source.

1.Wikipedia

2. WikiInfo

3. Anarcopedia

4. Edutopia

5. Cliff's Notes

Remember to use correct APA style for any citations in your work.

(Assignment total length: 3–4 pages)

Note: This assignment is not included in your Course Project: How Adults Learn. However, this week you should start working on incorporating the feedback you received from your instructor on your Course Project Assignments 1–6, which you will resubmit as part of your final Course Project: How Adults Learn, which is due in Week 8.


Submit this assignment by Sunday: