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Time: 4 hours Level: Introductory
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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...
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| | 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...
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| | 2 Working with memories – life storybooks
2 Working with memories – life storybooks Resource
- Life story books are used more and more by social workers, residential care staff and some foster parents with young people who, for various reasons, need to find ways to remember and talk about earlier...
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| | References and Acknowledgements
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