Published : 2020-09-08

Narrative Strategies of Constructing Identity: Biographical Stories

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The author’s main purpose is to analyse the process of constructing identity and certain related strategies against a wider background of considerations concerning selected types of narratives and their relationships with an individual’s self. Importantly, the author tries to determine the role of patterns and narrative patterns present in culture in the process of identity construction and the factors that can define this influence.
An equally important issue seems to be the conditions for the creation of so-called pro-active and defensive self-narratives in a human’s life, which are the basis for developing specific identity strategies as a derivative of relationships between an individual, their ideas about their own actions and their motives and the environment.

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identity, strategy, narrative, biography, self, dialogue



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Karkowska, M. (2020). Narrative Strategies of Constructing Identity: Biographical Stories. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna, 5(1), 241–262. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2020.05.16

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1