Identity as a narrative of autobiography

• Authors: Luba Jakubowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is a proposal of identity research through its process and narrative character. As a starting point I present a definition of identity understood as the whole life process of finding identification. Next I present my own model of auto/biography-narrative research inspired by hermeneutic and phenomenological traditions of thinking about experiencing reality. I treat auto/biography-narrative research as a means of exploratory conduct, based on the narrator’s biography data, also considering the researcher’s autobiographical thought. In the final part of the article I focus on showing the narrative structure of identity and autobiography. I emphasise this relation in definitions qualifying autobiography as written life narration and identity as a narration of autobiography.

Keywords

EN

narration, autobiography, identity, quality research, auto/biography-narrative research, hermeneutics, phenomenology

• Publisher: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
• Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 51-66

Dates

published

2020-01-17

Contributors

author

Luba Jakubowska

Identifiers

DOI

10.15503/jecs20102.51.66