Narrative Structure
This element of a cultural narrative refers to the “moral of the story.” It is analogous to the claim in an argument.
What is theme?
This term refers to "a detailed plan of an experiment, treatment, or procedure."
What is protocol?
These events are best described as "interactions, decisions or behavior of a group that affects people outside of the group."
What are public events?
This challenge reminds us that parents entrust us with the well-being of their children.
What is the children we teach our not our children?
This term refers to the idea that an author or speaker wants us to accept.
What is claim?
These are the stereotypical actors in a narrative.
What are stock characters?
This term refers to something that is "verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic."
What is empirical?
According to Quantz, this is not a system of government, but "a mode of associated living."
What is democracy?
This aspect of our work is focused on the mastery of specific knowledge, skills and techniques.
What is training?
This term refers to a rule or principle that connects the rest of the premises to the claim.
What is warrant?
Cultural narratives are an element of this type of discourse.
What is rhetoric?
This term means to "overstep bounds or take liberties."
What is presumptuous?
This is an institutionalized system that we hope leads to education.
What is schooling?
This challenge reminds us that learners come with extremely different aspirations, needs, expectations, and interests.
What is all children are not well-served by the same education?
As a form of discourse, rhetoric is characterized by this goal.
What is persuasion?
Different from a cultural narrative, this refers to the individual and unique qualities of a specific story.
What is the surface narrative?
This term refers to the action or process of disputing or arguing.
What is contestation?
This allegory characterizes the tensions between public good and private good.
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
This aspect of our work positions the learner to evaluate the merits of a task.
What is education?
There are two types of these. Some are conceptual and some are empirical.
What are premises?
This structural elements of cultural narrative refers to
the pattern of events found in a story.
What is plot?
This term refers to certified documents showing that a person is entitled to credit or has a right to exercise official power.
What is credential?
According to noted psychologist Amos Wilson, the function of this is to secure the survival of a people.
This challenge reminds us that our educational system is normed and it does not do a very good job of serving students outside of that “normal” range.
What is all children are not educable?
These are ideas that evoke strong emotion in people. So, writers and speakers use to bolster their position.
What are ideographs?