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Creative Education, 2010, 2, 101-106 101 doi:10.4236/ce.2010.12015 Published Online September 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ce) Discovering Oneself and Discovering Ourselves with the Help of Literature: Educational Possibilities of Narrative Alfredo Rodríguez-Sedano, Aurora Bernal Martínez de Soria, Miguel Rumayor Department of Education, University of Navarra and University of Panamericana, Pamplona, Spain and Guadalajara, México. Email: {arsedano, abernal}@unav.es, mrumayor@up.mx Received May 12th, 2010; revised June 2nd, 2010; accepted June 10th, 2010. ABSTRACT Undoubtedly narrative in education has frequently been studied. Nonetheless, in this paper we want to explore the dif- ferent educational possibilities offered by narrative in order to discover identity through tradition. MacIntyre ’s thought offers the categories of practice, tradition and narrative, in order to penetrate the central questions of personal identity and communicability that we consider the most suggestive. Some authors understand narrative as a very accurate means to access tradition and self-knowledge as well as to show the unity of human life and to vindicate the unity of tradition that we can face and those elements that constitute our moral habitat. Keywords : Education, Narrative, Identity, Tradition, Moral 1. Introduction help people to a better self-knowledge as well as to help them to know others. In this way they could push for- We can add to the well-known expression of Gadamer “a ward their interpersonal communication and through it comprehensible being is