RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Stories Told and Lessons Learned: Toward a Narrative Approach to Moral Development and Moral Education
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 182
OP 206
DO 10.17763/haer.59.2.d364up55vx875411
VO 59
IS 2
A1 Tappan, Mark
A1 Brown, Lyn Mikel
YR 1989
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/59/2/182.abstract
AB The telling of stories in moral education has a long and universal tradition. In the study of moral development, however, the uses and power of narrative in both forming and conveying a moral sense have been largely ignored. Mark Tappan and Lyn Brown argue that narrative is central to the study as well as to the teaching of morality, and that acknowledgment of authorship of moral choices, actions, and feelings marks the endpoint of the development of moral sensibility. Children's storytelling, they believe, creates authorship when the audience is responsive and the story told represents real experience. By presenting thoughtful and challenging evidence for the role of storytelling, these authors represent a perspective much needed in the field of moral development.