Uses of Narrative in English Language Studies: Cognition, Culture, and Narrative

The article aims to discuss the use of narrative as a teaching and learning   modality from the perspective of an educational psychologist and curriculum and  instructional programs specialist, the academic areas of the author for more than forty  years. First Piaget’s work, whose lectures the author had the honor of attending at  Université de Genève in the early 1970s, particularly his formulation of the  development of cognitive schemata related to causality will be briefly presented. Then  cultural narratives will be used to illustrate how individual human development and  various stages of cultural perceptions of causality may show parallels along the  Piagetian developmental perspective. Finally, the last theme will deal with relating the  uses of cognitive and cultural schemata to narratives in terms of curricular concerns.