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- Title
Biographical structuring: Narrating and reconstructing the self in research and professional practice.
- Authors
Fischer, Wolfram; Goblirsch, Martina
- Abstract
This article argues that the self is produced, maintained and modified in interaction and discourse. As a situated practice in ongoing social interaction, relying on biographical memory, cultural and situational impacts, the self is developed as a continuous structure allowing reliable expectations. We call this process biographical structuring and suggest a method of a reconstructive analysis. Distinguishing and triangulating the reconstructive perspectives of the lived life, the experienced life, and the presented life, we present a case analysis of an adolescent migrant, thus demonstrating how this kind of analysis can be applied in helping professions.
- Subjects
NARRATIVES; SELF-presentation; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory; SOCIAL interaction; RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL practice; BIOGRAPHERS
- Publication
Narrative Inquiry, 2006, Vol 16, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
1387-6740
- Publication type
Article