Abstrakt: | 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. |