This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Brady, E. M. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Redeemed From Time: Learning Through Autobiography

Department of Human Resource Development at the College of Education, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine.

Autobiography is an important means of facilitating adult learning and development. The process which is most associated with autobiography is memory. Memory is more than the recollection of past events; it is a critical element in the search for and construction of meaning in human experience in that it provides a "conscious consciousness of experience." A second role of autobiography in learning is cosmological. Human beings are capable of building order in their present-day lives by way of the remembered past. Autobiography also engages the imagination. It does not show individuals necessarily as they were or even as they are. Rather, it expresses what they believe themselves to have been and to be. Thus, the self ultimately is not something to be discovered through autobiography; it is in fact something to be imagined and constructed.

Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1, 43-52 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/0001848190041001004


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				S. S. Chin I Am a Human Being, and I Belong to the World: Narrating the Intersection of Spirituality and Social Identity Journal of Transformative Education, January 1, 2006; 4(1): 27 - 42. [Abstract] [PDF]

				C. G. Cortese Learning through Teaching Management Learning, March 1, 2005; 36(1): 87 - 115. [Abstract] [PDF]

				J. O. Brown Know Thyself: The Impact of Portfolio Development on Adult Learning Adult Education Quarterly, May 1, 2002; 52(3): 228 - 245. [Abstract] [PDF]