Narrative Writing and University Internship Program

This paper focuses on the role of narrative writing in students’ university educational path of the first and second level degree courses in “Education and Training Science”, “Sapienza”, University of Rome. Narrative writing is presented in particular as a tool to evaluate university internship programmes and students’ training. In particular, narrative writing allows the evaluation of:1.Activities those students took part in during the internship;2.Students’ ability to reflect on the experience and integrate it with previous knowledge and skills.In the degree courses in “Education and Training Science”, “Sapienza” University of Rome, internship experience is necessary to achieve the educational objectives and it is an integral part of the process of students’ professional and personal growth. Thus, an internship report becomes an epistemic writing that determines the growth of understanding and knowledge. For this reason, an internship report, with other evaluation tools, allows a better reflection on the students’ experience. The starting point is a rigorous analysis of the nature of narrative writing in specific educational and professional contexts.In this paper we analyse narrative writing, emphasizing the importance of writing for the reworking of professional experience, which is particularly important for future student educators as reflective practitioners.