Storytelling Guidance: A methodology of guidance for school

by Federico Batini

The main goal of guidance is the achievement, from the students, of competences of choose, searching ability, selecting and estimating information, self-esteem and empowerment, self-analysis ability of our own routes and planning skills.The guidance aims correspond with the education aims themselves in the age of the complexity. A suggestion of method can be done by the narrative orientation which is the only methodology of guidance born and increased in Italy. It has been identified as a good practice of guidance by the ISFOL (Percorso di orientamento. Indagine nazionale sulle buone pratiche, ISFOL 2005). This methodology has been introduced to the international public at the ISFOL meeting of 2005. It has been tested successfully until now and it has been applied in practical experiences and publishing, above all in the scholastic field and professional education. The guiding functions of narration are to design and control on the real life, interpretation and outlook of the real life, production of sense and meaning and contribution to the personal and social identity Moreover, the storytelling guidance aims: to know and accept ourselves , know how to plan and self- planning, to have a "chart of values",and to know how to decide. And to conclude, the strong points of this method are:Its suitability to the school background;it helps to establish a positive relation with the class because it works with materials and tools close to the belonging culture of students; it is coherent with the aims of the educational course and so it assists the work of the parent-teacher class committee;tt has a strong impact on the motivation and dynamics of relation and through the work of textuality it allows to work according to a planning logical and elaborate products which show themselves like a sheer "handmade of self and of the group".
Federico Batini is at the head of Pratika (www.pratika.net), Thélème (www.theleme.it) and Nausika (www.narrazioni.it). He is the national president of COFIR (www.cofir.net); lecturer of Sociology of economical process and work at the University of Florence; editor of the International journal Lifelong Likewide Learning (http://rivista.edaforum.it) Moreover is he deals with many other activities.