This article presents the findings from a biographical study of repeat offenders serving prison sentences. It focuses on the experiences of male participants, particularly the turning points in the ways in which the offenders ...

This contribution presents results of a longitudinal qualitative study of young adults with different career plans and transition pathways. The central question of this study focuses on the relevance of vocational orientation ...

The paper is an attempt to present the idea of an ethnography of life understood as a formative narrative on the shaping of one’s identity diachronically as well as from the perspective of key metaphors penetrating the ...

An important aspect that sets the framework for seeking educational potential in a biography of man is the combination of the learning process with the everyday world of life of an individual. Halina Semenowicz, writing ...

Biography and formation of human beings are interrelated research perspectives in which relationships between generations are quite significant. In social work (Soziale Arbeit), theories of formation and theories of biography ...

This article aims to contribute to the debate about the reflection on biographical experiences, in particular, the relationship between daughter and father. It presents my research project devoted to young adult women, ...

The paper presents the main assumptions of the narrative learning theory developed by M. Carolyn Clark and Marsha Rossiter. The theory is based on the idea that people understand themselves as well as the changes over the ...

Looking at today’s research practices applied in the area of social sciences one can notice a clear interest in biography. Observation of the lives of individuals, (re)cognition of social micro worlds from the perspective ...

The story of Krzyś (Chris), which the author reconstructed based on talks with a friend, shows the situation of the “class clown”, the boy suspected of having ADHD whom the doctors were unable to diagnose explicitly for ...

The starting point of the analyses is the conviction that there is a connection between social relations and the possibilities of human formation. The author justifies this view by referring to the analyses of other ...