ABSTRACT
The Historical Narrative My general thesis is the conviction that it is useful or even necessary for the successful teaching of history always to take into account the developments, achievements and tendencies in the philosophy of history. The narratives contained in historical textbooks and those 'produced' directly by teachers in school have a structure (form) and content which is the result of the functioning of different mechanisms which are intellectual and social. That structure and those mechanisms are now the object of different studies and discussions which are mostly due to the changes within the philosophy of history. In the traditional (positivist, analytical) philosophy of history the main interest was (and is) focussed on the logical structure of historiography, predominantly on the logical models of explanation. The narrative, its structure other than the logical one, and the mechanisms of its 'production' were of only marginal interest for that philosophy of history which for this reason was of no great use for teachers.
