Writing Our Life: Adult Learning and Teaching through Autobiography.

Karpiak, Irene

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ERIC Number: EJ606074

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Writing Our Life: Adult Learning and Teaching through Autobiography.

Karpiak, Irene

Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, v26 n1 p31-50 Spr 2000

Responses of students in an adult development course who wrote five chapters of their life stories suggest that autobiographical writing leads adults through a process of self-exploration and meaning making. The result is a transformed view of themselves and their world. (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Autobiographies, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Individuals)

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Language: English

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