Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0305000900012976How to cite this article: Alison Preece (1987). The range of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children. ABSTRACTThe productive narrative competence of three young children as revealed in their spontaneously occurring conversations recorded over an 18-month period during their kindergarten and grade one years was investigated. Almost 90 hours of the children's conversations, produced as they were being driven to and from school, were audiotaped and analysed in order to determine whether children between the ages of five and seven include narrative accounts in their conversations with each other and, if so, the nature of the narrative language produced. The subjects were found routinely and regularly to produce a striking variety of narrative forms; 14 different narrative types were distinguished and defined, six of which have not previously been reported in the literature on children's narratives. Seventy per cent of the recorded narratives took anecdotal form; original fantasy narratives occurred only rarely. A significant proportion of the narratives were collaboratively created.

This article examines the reactions of three young children to the narratives they spontaneously created and told to, and with, each other during daily 40-min drives to and from school. The data consist of 90 hr of recorded conversations spanning an 18-month period. The nature and effects of their comments to the narrator(s) are explored. The children are found to assume roles as both critics and as collaborators and to facilitate and support each other's efforts to create and tell a rich variety of narrative forms. Parallels with the role of adults in fostering narrative growth are noted.(Psychology qualitative, ethnographic analy-sis)

This article reports the findings of a university’s pilot project documenting the impact of an intervention entitled Course (Re)design for Internationalization Workshop (CRIW) on faculty perspectives and their subsequent willingness to engage in internationalization of the curriculum. Two main theories, transformative learning (Mezirow, 1991) and faculty development (Ramsden, 2003) in the approach adopted for the CRIW (Saroyan & Amundsen, 2004) informed this study and its procedures. This theoretical framework is congruent with Bennett’s (1993) developmental model of intercultural sensitivity. Data collection for this study consisted of pre- and post-CRIW questionnaires, interviews, and workshop artifacts. Interpretative qualitative analysis of the data showed that faculty engaged in the process at a very deep level and reported intellectual changes in their perspectives. Also, they demonstrated a willingness to change their conceptual and practical understandings of the process of internationalization of the curriculum. In conclusion, we found that the participants’ transformation and perspectives were in line with the theoretical bases of the original intervention designed by Saroyan, Amundsen, McAlpine, Weston, Winer, and Gandell (2004). Also, this pilot project reiterates the need for curricular reform, faculty development, and institutional structures to support internationalization of the curriculum on a larger scale. Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude pilote visant à mesurer l’impact d’un « atelier pédagogique pour l’internationalisation des cours » sur les perspectives des enseignantes et enseignants ainsi que sur leur volonté d’accroître la dimension internationale de leurs cours à l’université. La méthodologie adoptée pour organiser l’atelier s’inspire du travail de Saroyan & Amundsen (2004) et repose principalement sur deux théories : l’apprentissage transformateur (Mezirow, 1991) et le développement du corps professoral (Ramsden, 2003). Notre cadre théorique s’inscrit également dans la continuité des travaux de Bennett (1993) sur les modèles de croissance de la sensibilité interculturelle. Les données ont été recueillies par questionnaire (avant et après l’atelier) et entrevue, et les documents produits lors de l’atelier ont aussi été analysés. Une analyse qualitative révèle que les enseignants participants s’engagent à fond dans le processus d’adaptation de leurs cours et que leurs perspectives sur le concept d’internationalisation se transforment au niveau cognitif. Nos participants ont par ailleurs fait preuve d’une volonté évidente d’altérer leur compréhension pratique et conceptuelle du processus d’internationalisation du curriculum. En conclusion, cette étude montre que la transformation vécue par les participants, tant sur le plan de leurs perspectives que de leur compréhension du processus, correspond avec les bases théoriques sur lesquelles repose le travail original de Saroyan, Amundsen, McAlpine, Weston, Winer, and Gandell (2004). En outre, notre étude pilote démontre le besoin de renouveler nos programmes, d’encourager le développement professionnel des professeures et professeurs d’université et d’instituer des structures permettant le soutien de l’internationalisation du curriculum à plus grande échelle.

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