Narracje biograficzne a poczucie tożsamości kobiet

Abstract

The very work has two aims: to diagnose women’s biography and their sense of identity as well as search relations between educational biography and the sense of identity. In order to reach these empirical aims it was essential to conduct a theoretical analysis of the issues concerning man’s identity and biography, which was done in chapters 1 and 2. The research questions reflected the belief that man’s biography is a never-ending collection of information on his/ her life and him/herself alone. Thanks to the biographic method, including a narrative interview, 18 interviews were collected which underwent a qualitative analysis. The results of the very analysis were presented in chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 4 shows educational paths of the women in question, presenting them according to subsequent stages of education, and key motives within particular stages, deriving from the research material. Chapter 5 discusses the sense of identity of the respondents as well as conditions which, in their opinion, influenced its shape (detailed questions among them), and, thus, formulate conclusions derived from the analysis of the biographical material. Individual biographies presented in chapter 5 exemplify individualism of a human life. It was also to serve a close analysis of the ways of perceiving and defining oneself. Showing the sense of identity of particular respondents a summary was provided after each portrait, considered to be helpful in consolidating a holistic picture of the sense of identity of a given woman. The very summaries also helped to present a certain set of identity factors placed in education and outside it which did not refer to just one biography, but many, and, even in majority. Thus, it turned out that certain common elements regarded to be universal for the group examined appear individually, in different human experiences. The biographic material presented shows the importance and role of education, the educational path and experiences collected as a result of it, for the functioning of women, their life situation and sense of identity, the education as an important and essential area where identity processes are taking place.