Publications

Publication details [#60357]

Hecht, Michael L., Janice Krieger, Jonathan Pettigrew, Michelle Miller-Day, YoungJu Shin and John Graham. 2015. Teacher Narratives and Student Engagement. Testing Narrative Engagement Theory in Drug Prevention Education. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34 (6) : 604–620.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ablative absolute construction | commitment | drug culture | narrative | teacher

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on 100 videotaped lessons of the keepin’ it REAL drug prevention curriculum, it is confirmed that enhanced narrative quality of a prevention lesson is linked to raised student commitment. The narrativity quality, however, appears to differ widely, which influences these drug prevention interventions.