Developmental Narratives of the Experiencing Child

Abstract

Abstract A narrative view of child development presents an experiential child who explores the social, cultural, and physical world in search of meaning in collaboration with social guides and companions. Experience is seen as conditioned from 6 directions: inheritance, embodiment, ecological situatedness, social embeddedness, cultural and symbolic conditions, and past experience. The experiential view thus shifts the focus of social-cultural approaches from “external” influences on development to the complexity and individuality of interactive everyday experience that constitute the ongoing process of development. Among other consequences, a dramatic expansion of shared meaningful experience and expanded scope of consciousness emerges from experiences involving linguistic discourse during the preschool period, thereby significantly advancing the child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development.

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