Stałość i zmienność w biografii. Przełomy biograficzne
The Stability and Variability in Biography. Biographical Turning Points
Contributor(s): Elżbieta Dubas (Editor), Anna Gutowska (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Sociology, Higher Education , Gerontology, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: stability; variability; biographical turning points; biographical research; biografia; biografistyka; autobiografia; autokreacja; tożsamość człowieka; biograficzne punkty zwrotne
Summary/Abstract: The matters under consideration in volume VI of the Biography and Biography Research series, edited by Elżbieta Dubas and Anna Gutowska, are two leading issues that can be examined on the basis of biographical research. One of them is the stability and/or variability in biography, the other – biographical turning points. Both issues of reflection and biographical research are combined and interlock. The question of stability and variability is tackled in four chapters in this volume: by Agnieszka Zalewska-Meler, where the chapter is an attempt to grasp both common and unusual elements of sportsmen biographies; by Agnieszka Kowalska, indicating how educational, activating and integrated activities influenced individual lives of the homeless; by Tomasz Hauz, referring in his chapter to changes that take place in the lives of HIV-positive people; and by Aneta Tejchman, analysing the biography of Jan Ekier, an outstanding Polish artist, in search of a permanent feature of his scientific and artistic activity. The issue of biographical turning points is explored by the authors of the following seven chapters in this monography: Dorota Sieroń-Galusek raises the issue concerning the so-called biographic method/biographism in the context of selected academic works in the field of humanities and social sciences; Monika Chmielecka paints the picture of great biographical turning points in the light of the theory of transformative learning; Kamila Lasocińska connects the issue of biographical turning points with creativity, transgression, self-creation and adult creativity; Renata Brzezińska shows critical events of epiphanic nature in professional senior biographies; Marta Bożewicz presents the break-through experiences in the biographies of people having vocation for priesthood; Barbara Toroń-Fórmanek shows the relationship between an identity of a person in a penitentiary institution and their life course before going to prison; Małgorzata Lis proposes the concept of the four components (dynamisms) of upbringing according to Stefan Kunowski to be used for the research into biographical turning points in the history of upbringing. The volume concludes with three texts that refer to leading reflections on biographies and their research. Mariusz Granosik writes about a biographical transformation as one of the most important categories of contemporary pedagogy. Anna Walulik and Celina Kisiel-Dorohnicka analyse the anthropological ideas by Paul Ricoeur on the categories of stability and variability, and the identity and otherness. The publication ends with the text by Olga Czerniawska presenting chosen dilemmas of autobiography writing.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-8142-210-9
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-8142-209-3
- Page Count: 208
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: Polish
Życie naznaczone sportem. Stałe i zmienne elementy sportowych biografii
Życie naznaczone sportem. Stałe i zmienne elementy sportowych biografii
(A life marked by sport. Constant and varied elements of sports biography)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Zalewska-Meler
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Gerontology, Sports Studies, Philology
- Page Range:13-38
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:sports career; biography; relationship constancy–variability; life events
- Summary/Abstract:The purpose of the present text was to capture common and untypical elements of sports biographies that were part of the time of interest and later involvement in competitive sport. On the basis of individual sports history, they tried to determine their regularity, recognize the problems associated with building an authentic and very often independent vision of themselves in the field of physical culture. The analysis of biographical texts (in accordance with the principles of hermeneutic interpretation) was accompanied by a graphical presentation of the process of events and experiences that have a decisive influence on the understanding of the philosophy accompanying the building and development of sports careers.
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Aktywna integracja z perspektywy osób bezdomnych
Aktywna integracja z perspektywy osób bezdomnych
(Active integration from the perspective of the homeless)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Kowalska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Family and social welfare, Sociology of Education
- Page Range:39-52
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:narrative interview; active integration; homeless; social exclusion; wywiad narracyjny; bezdomni; wykluczenie społeczne
- Summary/Abstract:The article refers to a fragment of narrative biographical research conducted among the homeless. Qualitative research is about subjective reality, revealing the unique, unique aspects of active inclusion. This article attempts to answer the question of how the education, activation and integration efforts have affected the individual lives of the homeless.
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Zakażenie wirusem HIV jako czynnik zmian w życiu
Zakażenie wirusem HIV jako czynnik zmian w życiu
(HIV infection as a factor of changes in life)
- Author(s):Tomasz Hauza
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Substance abuse and addiction, Family and social welfare, Sociology of Education
- Page Range:53-70
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:HIV/AIDS; HIV infection; person living with HIV/AIDS; diagnosis; critical life event; biography; social relationships; parenthood
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents a part of the wider study concerning changes in subjects’ lives caused by being diagnosed with HIV. The diagnosis is treated by the author as a special kind of turning points categorized as so – called critical life events. People who have to cope with such events are forced to reorganize their lives and create new external and internal balance. Critical life events stop subjects’ previous activities and lead to unavoidable changes. The results show that these changes, when it comes to being infected with HIV, take place in all significant areas of people’s lives. The research was carried out taking advantage of a qualitative method with the use of a biographical-narrative interview. This strategy was combined with the quantitative analysis of the collected data. The research sample consisted of 30 people infected with HIV.
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Chopinocentryzm życia Jana Ekiera. Rozważania na podstawie biografii artysty
Chopinocentryzm życia Jana Ekiera. Rozważania na podstawie biografii artysty
(The Chopin-centred life story of Jan Ekier. The study based on the biography of the artist)
- Author(s):Aneta Teichman
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Music, Higher Education
- Page Range:71-79
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Ekier Jan; music; Chopin; pianist; biography
- Summary/Abstract:The life of every human being is an endless collection of facts, information, events, thoughts, feelings, dreams and experiences. The assumption that a biography, trying to give the comprehensive description of a human life, i.e. from the moment of birth until death, is going to reveal the whole truth about a person, is probably far-fetched at best. How many questions would need to be asked and how many would need to be answered in order to present a person from a multitude of perspectives? How many problems would need to be analysed, how many puzzles would need an explanation, how many documents would need to be found? Sometimes we undertake this effort, often as a result of the great impact of a given individual’s achievements on a society, and his or her uniqueness as a human being. The primary objective of this article is to analyse the biography of Jan Ekier, one of the most remarkable Polish artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first century in terms of some universal characteristics of his academic and artistic activity. Is there a single factor that would meet the requirement of universality in a life so rich and multithreaded that we could identify? Its discovery would be fascinating because of the artist’s life which lasted for over a hundred years, filled with work and a great number of achievements. That is why, it is worth looking at his life from this perspective.
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Biografistyka w humanistyce i naukach społecznych – kilka uwag
Biografistyka w humanistyce i naukach społecznych – kilka uwag
(Biography in humanities and in social sciences – some remarks)
- Author(s):Dorota Sieroń-Galusek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Philology, Sociology of Education
- Page Range:83-91
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:biography; biographical method; researcher biographer
- Summary/Abstract:The author analyses how in the Polish humanities and social sciences the biographical method changes. The traces of the change she finds in recent scientific literature from the fields of literary studies, sociology, pedagogy and history. She also attempts to sketch a draft features distinguishing the biographist among researchers.
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Obraz przełomów biograficznych w świetle teorii transformatywnego uczenia się
Obraz przełomów biograficznych w świetle teorii transformatywnego uczenia się
(Breakthroughs in biographies in light of transformative learning theory)
- Author(s):Monika Chmielecka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Educational Psychology
- Page Range:93-103
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:breakthrough in biography; critical life events; turning point; nuclear episode; transformative learning; Jack Mezirow; transformative learning theory
- Summary/Abstract:Breakthroughs in biographies could happen in different situations, in different reasons, contexts. Each human can also experience them differently. Jack Mezirow tried to systemize deep changes which are a part of human’s life in his transformative learning theory. In that case, a breakthrough is a perspective transformation and making decisions based on critical reflection on and of individual assumptions, which leads to modifications in everyday behaviour. In the article, authoress is undertaking an attempt of drawing the phenomena of breakthrough in biography according to Mezirow’s theory.
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Kreatywność, transgresje i autokreacja – przełomy biograficzne a potrzeba twórczości osób dorosłych
Kreatywność, transgresje i autokreacja – przełomy biograficzne a potrzeba twórczości osób dorosłych
(Creativity, transgressions, self-creation – biographical breakthroughs and the need for creative adults)
- Author(s):Kamila Lasocińska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Adult Education, Higher Education , Sociology of Education
- Page Range:105-121
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:breakthrough; creativity; transgressions; self-creation; biographical studies; adult education
- Summary/Abstract:In this article I take a reflection on the meaning of life breakthroughs in adult life in the context of discovering and becoming aware by a person of the new development opportunities. Particular importance is attached to the notion of creativity analyzed in relation to the possibility for adults to explore new directions of fulfillment during their mid-adulthood. I assume that the creation of goods, ideas and values, crossing their own barriers and taking transgressive actions allows adults to transform consciously the life’s project and future plans. In the present text I also clarified the issues that may be interesting in the biographical research, as well as in terms of adult education, focusing on the theme of life breakthrough, the transformation of life, opportunities for development and creativity of adults in their middle age.
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Doświadczenia przełomowe w życiu powołanych do kapłaństwa
Doświadczenia przełomowe w życiu powołanych do kapłaństwa
(Breakthrough experienced in the lives of those with a vocation to priesthood)
- Author(s):Marta Bożewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Sociology of Education
- Page Range:123-138
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:biographies; breakthrough experiences; priests; seminary students; conversion; turning point
- Summary/Abstract:Discovering one’s self as a one having a vocation to priesthood is usually connected with a breakthrough experience – it may be small or global, may be one or many. Sometimes it manifests in the difficulty of describing an own experience, and on other occasions it is so vivid that it is forever engraved in the memory, with all of its details. Because it touches upon the spiritual life of an individual and connects with transcendence, it is a personal and intimate experience. In some biographies, a radical turning point is evident, and in others a long-lasting conversion of which the most evident display is adopting the perspective of a new group. The article describe four types of biographies of people having a vocation to priesthood, and including various breakthrough experiences. It is the result of research conducted with seminary students and priests, using a method of biographical interviews analyzed according to the concept by Fritz Schütze.
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Biografie skazanych mężczyzn i kobiet przykładem kryzysu w rozwoju tożsamości człowieka
Biografie skazanych mężczyzn i kobiet przykładem kryzysu w rozwoju tożsamości człowieka
(Biographies of convicted men and women as an example of crisis in the development of human identity)
- Author(s):Barbara Toroń-Fórmanek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Penology, Sociology of Education
- Page Range:139-155
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:human identity; criminal identity; lifestyle; biographical method; creative rehabilitation
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of rehabilitation activities is to lead a person to a condition of adequate adaptation to standards of social life, develop skills which enable socialization and participation in culture and as a result to develop their own identity. Unfortunately, the theory does not coincide with practice which is shown in the author’s research. The article presents the connection between the human’s identity and his life before his imprisonment. The author associates the process of developing the identity with the lifestyle according to Walter’s conception and then, basing on her own studies, the author shows that the rehabilitation in the Polish prison system does not have a good influence on the convict’s reshaping process. It is believed that the cause of that is the biography. The author can see the connection between the developing of the criminal identity with the influence of school, peer group and criminal group. Moreover, the author pays special attention to the need to use creative methods of rehabilitation which support the development of the proper identity.
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Składniki procesu wychowawczego czy predyktory przełomów biograficznych? – na przykładzie biografii z piętnem Syzyfa (dr Michał Marczak 1886–1945)
Składniki procesu wychowawczego czy predyktory przełomów biograficznych? – na przykładzie biografii z piętnem Syzyfa (dr Michał Marczak 1886–1945)
(The ingredients of the educational process or predictors breakthroughs biographical? – On the biography with the stigma of Sisyphus (Dr. Michał Marczak 1886–1945))
- Author(s):Małgorzata Lis
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , History of Education, Sociology of Education
- Page Range:157-173
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:components of education; the concept of Stefan Kunowski; biographical breakthroughs; history of education
- Summary/Abstract:The text is an attempt to answer the question on how to investigate the essence and importance of events known as biographical breakthroughs in the history of education, where a direct dialogue with the Narrator is impossible. The author presents the possibility of using the Stefan Kunowski concept of the four components (dynamisms) education by referring them to a particular form – Dr. Michael Marczak (1886–1945).
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Tożsamość – biografia – rządzenie. Krytycznie o dominujących dyskursach indywidualnej przemiany
Tożsamość – biografia – rządzenie. Krytycznie o dominujących dyskursach indywidualnej przemiany
(Identity – biography – governance. A critical view on dominant discourses of individual change)
- Author(s):Mariusz Granosik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Educational Psychology, Sociology of Education
- Page Range:177-191
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:biographical transformation; critical approach; governmentality; educationalization; Foucault
- Summary/Abstract:Biographical transformation seems to be one of the most important concepts in contemporary pedagogy, not only in the area of social rehabilitation or youth work but also in gerontology. An impression is to be made that “techniques of the self”, genealogically corresponding to the ancient notion of the care of the self (epimeleia heautou / ἐπιμέλεια ἑαυτοῦ), are being experience a kind of renaissance, influencing professional action of educators, but also educationalizing public discourse. Biographical (narrative) epistemological perspective is an important condition of the process, it grounds not only scientific research, but also penetrates in a popular form into the mass media defining the boundaries of what is real or worth to be experienced. Unfortunately, the process of popularizing biographical change is not accompanied by adequate critical study while the process may be one of the sophisticated mechanisms of power of freedom. As a result, the virtual recognition of the individuals’ right to constructing their own biographical projects and the invitation to inventing (and transforming) their selves can be interpreted as a mass colonization of the biography in the broader social plan.
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Narracyjne i etyczne rozumienie tożsamości osoby w badaniach biograficznych. Perspektywa Paula Ricoeura
Narracyjne i etyczne rozumienie tożsamości osoby w badaniach biograficznych. Perspektywa Paula Ricoeura
(Narrative and ethical understanding of personal identity in biographical research. Paul Ricoeur’s perspective)
- Author(s):Anna Walulik, Celina Kisiel-Dorohinicka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Social Philosophy, Culture and social structure , Higher Education , Sociology of Education
- Page Range:193-202
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:story about one’s own life; personal identity; narrative identity; ethical identity; analysis of narration
- Summary/Abstract:The article addresses the problem of the temporal dimension of human existence and its importance for biographical research. The point of departure is the understanding of human fate in terms of constancy and change, as well as identity and difference (of another human being), outlined by the anthropological thought of Paul Ricoeur. In the light of the above philosophy, an exemplary narration is analyzed and interpreted – it is autobiography of Josef Ströder, a German doctor who was accused during World War II of having friendship with Poles. Ricoeur’s recognition of the personal identity as a narrative identity (and closely related ethical identity), as well as analysis of the selected narration, let us conclude that the narration of one’s own life is not a neutral description. This conclusion has clear pedagogical implications – it suggests the need to create a human (especially adult) conditions and opportunities for a reflective story about one’s own life.
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Dylematy pisania autobiografii
Dylematy pisania autobiografii
(Dilemmas of writing autobiographies)
- Author(s):Olga Czerniawska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Higher Education , Sociology of Education
- Page Range:203-207
- No. of Pages:5
- Keywords:autobiography; memoire; dilemmas
- Summary/Abstract:The topic presents the author’s thoughts focused on certain chosen difficulties – the dilemmas related to writing an autobiography. The author draws attention to the biographer’s various references to his/her life events, including their concealment or change. She refers to the type of biography which is life story and its various contents, depending on a wider context. She explains what autobiography is and how to organize the autobiographic records.
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