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Topic outline

 
  • Time: 4 hours
    Level: Introductory

 
 

Introduction

  • Introduction Resource
  • This unit examines life stories. It looks at the way in which objects, trends, cultures or disabilities may contribute to a person's identity. This unit also considers the contribution that our own life...
 

1 Life experience as everyday talk

  • 1.1 Life stories Resource
  • Talking about our own personal experience may be important in care relationships, but isn't talking about your own life something that goes on all the time?
  • 1.2 Where can you find life stories? Resource
  • Life stories are everywhere. In adverts, magazines, music, sport, politics, chat shows, the messages we get are personalised through interviews and stories which tell us about quite intimate details of...
  • 1.3 Your past experiences Resource
  • Telling about your past experience, autobiography, is not just a question of ensuring that the record of the past is complete and representative. What also seems to be important is a need to tell. Giddens...
 

2 Working with memories – life storybooks

 

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