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TY - JOUR AU - Jakubowska, Luba PY - 2020/01/17 Y2 - 2026/05/05 TI - Identity as a narrative of autobiography JF - Journal of Education Culture and Society JA - JECS VL - 1 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.15503/jecs20102.51.66 UR - https://www.ogrodynauk.pl/index.php/jecs/article/view/840 SP - 51-66 AB - <p><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 465.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.950571);">Th</span><span style="left: 140.44px; top: 465.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.913904);">is article is a proposal of identity research through its process and narrative character. As a </span><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 500.263px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.934348);">starting point I present a definition of identity understood as the whole life process of finding </span><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 534.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.930816);">identification. Next I present my own model of auto/biography-narrative research inspired by </span><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 569.263px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.888448);">hermeneutic and phenomenological traditions of thinking about experiencing reality. I treat </span><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 603.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.916931);">auto/biography-</span><span style="left: 245.833px; top: 603.861px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.909837);">narrative research as a means of exploratory conduct, based on the narrator’s </span><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 638.263px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.902751);">biography data, also considering the re</span><span style="left: 429.483px; top: 638.261px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.919713);">searcher’s autobiographical thought. In the final part of </span><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 672.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.934636);">the article I focus on showing the narrative structure of identity and autobiography. I </span><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 707.263px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.930808);">emphasise this relation in definitions qualifying autobiography as </span><span style="left: 655.917px; top: 707.263px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.04936);">written life narration</span><span style="left: 839.367px; top: 707.263px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.894558);"> and </span><span style="left: 118.24px; top: 741.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.903309);">identity as a </span><span style="left: 219.633px; top: 741.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.956593);">na</span><span style="left: 240.833px; top: 741.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.01041);">rration of autobiography</span><span style="left: 454.483px; top: 741.863px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.881073);">.</span></p> ER -