A criança e a narração

Abstract

The topic of this text is the Biblical storytelling in the perspective of children, with a special emphasis on foundations and narrative models, in the search for criteria and paradigms for the practice of Biblical storytelling to children. The narrative is presented as an important literary gender in the Bible and the Biblical storytelling, especially to children, is seen as a fundamental activity in the process of teaching and learning the faith in families, schools, congregations and other contexts of Christian Education. The narrative activity is described as an interdisciplinary process with multiple dimensions that are profoundly interrelated, providing data and concepts that help to identify the constitutive elements of the narrative process. On the basis of bibliographical research, the Biblical storytelling is shown to be a pedagogical, theological and methodological principle par excellence in Christian Education with children. The text contains a pedagogical approach, focusing on the narrative process and the narration in view of the child's development.