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Karpiak, Irene – Studies in Continuing Education, 2010
When adult students write their life story, they gather selected life experiences and transform these onto the written page. In the course of this literary process they revisit sites of the past and reflect on the meaning of past events; many reconstruct these events from the point of view of the present, and most close their narrative by…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Memory, Time Perspective

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