Women’s Life (Re)decisions. Report from Biographical Narratives

• Main Authors: Aleksandra Chmielińska, Monika Modrzejewska-Świgulska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń 2020-06-01
• Series: Przegląd Badań Edukacyjnych
• Subjects: biographical studies; life re-decisions; women; life changes; model.
• Online Access: https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/PBE/article/view/PBE.2020.005/25996

The article is an introductory note from biographical narrative studies among women who declare making significant life changes. The authors wish to examine and describe the mechanisms of life re-decisions whose purpose is a multi-aspect reorientation of one’s life, and which was interpreted as the processes of making significant ideological, emotional, spiritual, relational, and professional changes or decisions involving a radical change of one’s environment. Qualitative data was obtained by means of narrative interviews and all the tools used to study the changes in biographical perspective of the Life Lines were also applied by the authors in building a hypothetical model of life re-decisions, which describe four tips of re-decisions. Studies were conducted from 2016 to 2019, in various Polish cities: Lodz, Warsaw, Cracow, Gdansk.