Adult Narrative Learning And Its Practical Strategies

As the aging of society intensifies,adults have become a learning group with the largest number and the most complex background in social life.How to effectively improve the quality of adult education,innovate the way of adult education and guide adults to lifelong learning has become a frontier issue in the field of adult education research.Narrative learning is a learning process of adult self-life stories,which can promote adults to self-education and self-education,and realize the possibility of lifelong learning for adults.Narrative not only refers to describing a series of events by narrating behavior,but also can be used as a social communication tool to transmit and share daily life experience.It can also become a research method in the field of humanities and social sciences,and also points to the learning way of adult reflection and self-shaping.In addition,affected by living environment,language habits,self-needs and other factors,adults will alternately use different types of narrative such as "temporal" narrative,"thematic" narrative and "creative" narrative to achieve the expected narrative purpose,and different narrative types will also form different narrative effects and characteristics.Adult narration has multiple learning implications and values.First of all,narration can promote adults to a kind of reflective life,allowing adults to constantly generate introspective thinking in the process of reviewing the past life,so as to provide the possibility for adults to construct a new life portrait of self-understanding.Secondly,narration will help adults to obtain self-identity and life meaning,which is an important way for adults to grasp life and create life meaning.Focusing on their own life experiences,adults consciously reconstruct their relationships with important characters in their past lives in the process of telling life stories,thus shaping their self-identity and integrating the meaning of life.Finally,narrative can guide adults to become lifelong learners.The spontaneity,openness and extensiveness of narration provide a realistic path for adults’ lifelong learning,which will encourage adults to acquire learning experience in an independent and personalized way based on their own needs and characteristics,so that adults can become active lifelong learners.The spontaneity and individuation of adult narrative learning also lead to many difficulties and problems in the practice of narrative learning.First of all,under the influence of utilitarianism,pragmatism and other ideas,adults tend to examine and choose learning methods from the perspective of reality and utilitarianism,which leads to conceptual problems in adult narrative learning.Secondly,the deviation of adult learning content from subjective experience and the marginalization of "conversational" learning style will hinder the occurrence of adult narrative learning,and it is difficult to construct adult self-identity and life meaning in narrative learning.Finally,due to the influence of time,energy and realistic pressure,adult learning forms often have a strong sense of purpose and reality-oriented,learning journals,autobiographical writing and other text narrative learning forms have not been paid attention to.In addition,under the influence of digital ethical risks and digital divide,adults show a negative attitude towards the application of digital narrative learning forms,which will lead to a relatively simple and rigid form of adult narrative learning.Therefore,in the face of the current practical dilemma of adult narrative learning,it is necessary to consciously adopt certain methods and strategies in adult education practice to give adults external education improvement,so as to help adults to move towards narrative learning.First of all,in terms of concept,both teachers and adult learners should change their traditional concepts and understandings of narrative learning,deepen their understanding of the connotation of narrative learning,guide adult learners to establish correct narrative learning consciousness,and face squarely the educational and developmental value of narrative learning for themselves.Secondly,in the process of education,teachers should respect the subjectivity of adult learners from the aspects of objectives,contents and methods,get rid of the educational orientation focusing on knowledge and skill imparting,and really pay attention to the life experience and inner spiritual growth of adult learners in the process of narrative learning.Finally,teachers should encourage adult learners to use learning logs,autobiographical writing and digital narrative learning forms to guide adult learners to continuously go deep into their hearts and enrich their individual spiritual world.