Aging and Biography

James E. Birren & Jan-Erik Ruth

James E. Birren & Jan-Erik Ruth
Aging and Biography [EPUB ebook]
Explorations in Adult Development

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Personal life narratives can serve as a rich source of new insights into the experience of human aging. In this comp;rehensive volume, an international team of editors and contributors provide effective approaches to using biography to enhance our understanding of adult development. In addition to providing new theoretical aspects on aging and biography, the book also details new developments concerning the practical use of different biographical approaches in both research and clinical work. This is a landmark volume advancing the use of narrative approaches in gerontology.

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Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Biography in Adult Development and Aging, J.-E Ruth and G.M. Kenyon

The Meaning/Value of Personal Storytelling, G.M. Kenyon

Emotionality and Continuity in Biographical Contexts, W. Mader

Studying Older Lives: Reciprocal Acts of Telling and Listening, B.J. Cohler and T.R. Cole

Narrative Knowing and the Study of Lives, D.E. Polkinghorne

Competence and Quality of Life: Theoretical Views of Biography, T. Svensson

The Fractal Structure of Lives: Continuity and Discontinuity in Autobiography, J.J.F. Schroots

Narrating the Self in Adulthood, D.P. Mc Adams

The Complexity of Personal Narratives, B. de Vries and A.J. Lehman

Ways of Life: Old Age in a Life History Perspective, J.-E. Ruth and P. Oberg

Experienced Aging as Elucidated by Narratives, R.-L. Heikkinen

Beyond Life Narratives in the Therapeutic Encounter, K.J. Gergen

Restorying a Life: Adult Education and Transformative Learning, W.L. Randall

Life Review and Reminiscence in Nursing Practice, I. Burnside

Biographical Assessment in Community Care, B. Gearing and P. Coleman

Autobiography: Exploring the Self and Encouraging Development, J.E. Birren and B.A. Birren

References
Index
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Gary M. Kenyon, Ph D, is founder and Chair of the Gerontology Department at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, and Honorary Research Associate at the University of New Brunswick.

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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 368 ● ISBN 9780826189820 ● Размер файла 2.3 MB ● редактор James E. Birren & Jan-Erik Ruth ● издатель Springer Publishing Company ● опубликованный 2004 ● Издание 1 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 5847919 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM

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