ABSTRACT
Encouraging children to think for themselves, to see from the point of view of others, to be productive in ideas, to feel and to empathize with others - in short, to be imaginative - was high on teachers' agenda. Maxine Greene considers the imagination an 'instrument of liberation'. Howe and Johnson highlight the importance of narrative and story to children's lives and to their learning processes. They show that there are many types of narrative such as argument, account, story, legend and biography, and that they differ in terms of form, length, source and content. From the time that pupils come to school at 5 years old or below, stories is a major feature. Every morning when pupils in schools entered their classroom, new and old stories were unfolded. Teachers told stories, created stories, imported stories, played a part in a story, and took children in search of stories.
