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Biographicity as 'mental grammar' of postmodern life
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SourceEuropean journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 12 (2021) 1, S. 81-94 ZDB
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ISSN2000-7426; 20007426
LanguageEnglish
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Abstract (English):‘Biographicity’ is a concept that has been discussed in international adult education for more than 30 years. It has stimulated research concepts and has become a metaphor for the resilience potential of biographical learning processes in modernised modern societies. A basic theoretical foundation has so far been lacking. This article attempts to provide such a foundation. The stimulating influence of modern neurobiology will be discussed in the first section (1). Afterwards, innovations and restrictions of a systemtheoretically reformulated biography theory will be the issue (2). Its self-referentiality blockades can be illustrated clearly by the problem of the social construction of ‘gender’, in which we also reach the limits of the interactionist concept of construction (3). This theoretical discourse creates a concept of its own: the idea of a ‘biographical habitus’ as the ‘mental grammar’ of life in postmodern societies (4). (DIPF/Orig.)
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Date of publication15.04.2021
CitationAlheit, Peter: Biographicity as 'mental grammar' of postmodern life - In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 12 (2021) 1, S. 81-94 - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-219641 - DOI: 10.25656/01:21964; 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.ojs1845
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