Autobiography-Biography-Narration. Research Practice for Biographical Perspectives
Autobiography-Biography-Narration. Research Practice for Biographical Perspectives

Contributor(s): Marcin Kafar (Editor), Monika Modrzejewska-Świgulska (Editor)
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Applied Linguistics, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: narrative research;biographical research;biography;autobiography;narration;biographical perspective
Summary/Abstract: This volume includes eight complementary articles that relate to the empirical, methodological, analytical, interpretive and theoretical aspects of the narrative-biographical research. The basic linking assumption of these works is a departure from the trend, still dominant in Poland and especially visible in the social sciences, modeled on the ideas taken from the natural sciences. The co-authors of Autobiography―Biography―Narration, positioning themselves between their source areas of knowledge (pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and literary studies) and a transdisciplinary auto/biographical research plane, pick up as their starting point the processual perspective of the socio-cultural world, whose central element is the active subject as the creator of his/her own biography. Suchassumptions (expressed explicitly and implicitly) provided the basis forreports on the Authors’ own research projects (cf. in particular the textsby Karolina Dudek and Anna Kurpiel) and a framework for ordering the purely theoretical aspects of narrative-biographical studies (cf. the articleby Katarzyna Gajek).

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