Biography approached

Biographical research is a qualitative research approach aligned to the social interpretive paradigm of research.

Biographical research is concerned with the reconstruction of life histories and the constitution of meaning based on biographical narratives and documents. The material for analysis consists of interview protocols (memorandums), video recordings, photographs, and a diversity of sources.

This post focusses on creative techniques for both eliciting memories and for working with participants to construct representations of their life stories.

This post focusses on creative techniques for both eliciting memories and for working with participants to construct representations of their life stories.

Linguistic diversity has become a central feature in daily lives.

In fact, biographical approaches imply a different way of conceiving education.

Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars.

Firstly, we can point to a few elements constituting the stereotypical image of biographical approach: bi- ographical research is easy to be done, though stren-.

These documents are evaluated and interpreted according to specific rules and criteria. The starting point for this approach is the understanding of an individual biography in terms of its social constitution. The biographical approach was influenced by the symbolic interactionism, the phenomenological sociology of knowledge (Alfred Schütz, Peter L.

Berger, and Thomas Luckmann), and ethnomethodology (Harold Garfinkel). Therefore, biography is understood in terms of a social construct^[1] and the reconstruction of biographies can give insight on social