Responds to an article in the previous issue of this journal on the intersections between performance and autobiography. Notes that the majority of recent work on autobiography appears to involve a series of double gestures, such as the performer using autobiographical forms to question the form of autobiography. (PM)

Presents an edited transcript of a panel discussion on ghostwriting. Discusses the process of ghostwriting books and speeches; the relationship between writer and "client"; the ghostwriter's influence on policy; ethics and professionalism of ghostwriting; differences between ghostwriting and speech writing; the authenticity of…

Reviewed studies on reminiscence and life review to examine both developmentalist and interpretive approaches to interpreting such studies. Used interpretive approach, particularly Goffman's dramaturgical approach, to further understand objective of reminiscence and to see how social element emphasized by interpretive approach can be deciding…

This paper responds to Jacques Derrida's essay on Paul de Man, discussing three aspects of responsibility and exploring their implications with respect to teaching: responsibility as vulnerability, responsibility as autobiography and memory, and responsibility as the structure of iterability in writing. (SM)

Critical reflection illuminates power dynamics and assumptions underlying experience. Adult educators can model critical reflection by viewing what they do through four lenses: their autobiographies as adult learners, their students' viewpoint, their colleagues' viewpoint, and the lens of theory. (Contains 34 references.) (SK)

Argues that Frederick Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" motivates students to write by opening up issues of adolescence, self-esteem, identity, rebellion against unjust authority and laws, individual dignity, and personal control over life and working conditions. Provides a summary lesson plan…

Argues that Frederick Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" should be read in its entirety, and that it should be considered a classic text for its continuing impact on the minds of readers from 1845 to the present. Cites incidents in which college students have marveled at Douglass's prose, and how…

Discusses the use of the ecological autobiography as a tool for enhancing an understanding of one's self and the human-earth relationship. Presents a five-step process for developing one's own ecological autobiography and suggestions on how to make the development of autobiographical essays a part of environmental education programs. Contains 28…

Autobiographical accounts of two adult educators address questions of what it means to be an adult educator in an environment of individualization and reflexivity. Cultural conditions that give rise to similarities and differences in their accounts, such as postmodernism and popular culture, are identified. (SK)

Marie G. Lee, an Asian American growing up in the Midwest during the '60s and '70s wanted to be "normal". She uses this background to explore the search for identity in her characters as well as her self. Lee finally realizes that identity isn't a goal to be achieved but it is something that evolves like life.

Teachers' lives have been the focus of much recent research on teaching, and we now have rich, detailed understandings of how teachers develop a 'teaching self,' in the context of concrete details of biography, school settings, relationships and educational systems within which teachers work. What we lack is a sense of the teacher in a place--a…

The authors review competing theories concerning the emergence and early development of autobiographical memory. It is argued that the differences between these accounts, although important, may be more apparent than real. The crux of these disagreements lies not in "what" processes are important, but rather, the role these different processes…

University of the Pacific is a private, comprehensive university with a College of Arts and Sciences and six professional schools, and with a population of more than four thousand students on its main campus in the ethnically diverse central valley city of Stockton, California. The signature component of Pacific's general education program is the…

This performance autoethnography shows the author's struggle in finding his place, scholarship, voice, and body, into the academic setting. Mixing together memories of his lived experience with sugar cane workers, notes, and leftovers of different fieldworks, plus 6 years of life as grad student at the University of Illinois, the author looks for…

The last decade identity is often and very fruitfully conceptualized as "narrative identity." Neither for individuals nor for groups is identity a given beforehand anymore. On the contrary, identity has to be constructed in an inductive way continuously. Three qualitative research methods are applied to explore in an inductive way the…