Autobiographical Narratives of Oldest-Old Persons: What Matters at That Age?

Patrão, Marta; Oliveira, Carla Roma; Sousa, Liliana

doi:10.1080/10720537.2018.1456381

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“…A second repeated feature worth noting was the interesting "closures" of their narratives. They usually ended their own life stories with a narrative of the future focused on personal improvement that empowered them by shedding a feeling of helplessness and opening up towards a new symbolic and alternative narrative matrix (Botella & Vall, 2019;Gergen & McNamee, 1992;Patrão et al, 2017).…”

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Greek Myths to Co-Build Teacher Identity: Perceptions of Students in the Master of Education Research

Giner-Gomis¹,

Martínez²,

Cabezas³

et al. 2022

INT J EDUC METHODOL

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<p style="text-align: justify;">The objective of this study was to promote the use of metaphorical stories based on classical Greek myths in academic teacher training. The aim is to favour processes of personal assemblage and the constitution of teacher identity. Based on 8 classical myths, 4 of them featuring a female character and another 4 a male character, the group of participants narrated positive as well as disappointing experiences they had lived through during their academic training. Moreover, they selected the myths, among those proposed, that provided the metaphors that best described their specific personal trajectories. Adopting a qualitative approach, we followed a narrative-biographical tradition and collected 37 stories. This narrative corpus was analysed using the AQUAD software. The results showed that classical Greek myths contain and provide a powerful and illuminating narrative scaffolding, helping students to adopt a different perspective in the narration of their own academic trajectories. The myths equally helped them to become more aware of the most genuine life and personal experiences that shaped their own teacher identity.</p>

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confidence: 99%