Reviewing narrative competencies as the goal of schooling

Narrative, defined as a story with narrative properties, a mode of thinking for understanding human life, and a cultural toolkit for organizing a culture, is an inherent or acquired way of understanding and making the world. Narrative competencies involve making plausible stories, changing or reinforcing scripts, and displaying culturally communicative competence. Given that schooling should focus on establishing the positive selves (egos) of students in a rapidly changing society, narrative competencies are suggested as the goal of school curricula. Students with narrative competencies are expected to engage in social interactions effectively, understanding the culture within which they live. Narrative competencies in schooling dominate, clarify, or implement the narrative competencies by subject, depending on the significance and actual condition of the narrative competencies by subject.