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Aging and Biography : Explorations in Adult Development.
Personal life narratives can serve as a rich source of new insights into the experience of human aging. In this comp;rehensive volume, an international team of editors and contributors provide effective approaches to using biography to enhance our understanding of adult development. In addition to p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer Pub. Co.,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Biography in Adult Development and Aging; 2 The Meaning/Value of Personal Storytelling; 3 Emotionality and Continuity in Biographical Contexts; 4 Studying Older Lives: Reciprocal Acts of Telling and Listening; 5 Narrative Knowing and the Study of Lives; 6 Competence and Quality of Life: Theoretical Views of Biography; 7 The Fractal Structure of Lives: Continuity and Discontinuity in Autobiography; 8 Narrating the Self in Adulthood; 9 The Complexity of Personal Narratives; 10 Ways of Life: Old Age in a Life History Perspective.
- 11 Experienced Aging as Elucidated by Narratives12 Beyond Life Narratives in the Therapeutic Encounter; 13 Restorying a Life: Adult Education and Transformative Learning; 14 Life Review and Reminiscence in Nursing Practice; 15 Biographical Assessment in Community Care; 16 Autobiography: Exploring the Self and Encouraging Development; References; Index.