Educational potential of critical life events from the point of view of biographical learning
Educational potential of critical life events from the point of view of biographical learning

Summary/Abstract: The article contains deliberations on the subject of adultlearning as a result of breaking points in people’s lives. Itis based on Fritz Schütze and Gerhard Riemann’s conceptof the trajectory, trying to show the educational potentialof critical life events. The paper constitutes an illustrationabout learning and biography. The analysis concerns anindividual who experienced domestic violence, was separatedfrom her family of origin by being placed in a careand educational institution, whose life was additionallycomplicated by teenage pregnancy and motherhood. Theanalysis of the narrative makes it possible to see two dimensionsof the relationship between learning and biography– learning from the experiences we face during lifeand biographical learning (or learning from a biography).

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