Narrative and History Education - towards Understanding and Using of the Structure of Historical Narrative

The paper is to show the significance of narrative for history education in three points. First, it tries to grasp distinctive characters of historical narrative. Second, it clarifies the structure of historical narrative on the basis of preceding inquiries especially in seventies and eighties of 20th century. Third, it discerns three types of historical narrative and shows various combination of them.BR The main feature of historical narrative lies in the consciousness of time. Depending on the scope of time historical narrative could be divided in three types: macro, meso, and micro narrative. Macro narrative mainly relies on normative explanation, whereas micro narrative for the most part is based upon intentional explanation. Historical narrative, therefore, should be constructed variously depending on the recipient.