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WINTER TIME IN THE WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
TELL A STORY
BE YOURSELF
MAKE IT SIMPLE
MAKE IT CONCRETE
MAKE IT SHORT
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
MAKE STRONG
STATEMENTS
BE SELF-CRITICAL
number
Or
When the intent is to capture one persons interpretation of his or her life,
the study is called a life history (Bogdan & Biklen, 1998:3). The authors
believe that life history is the meaning that a person is giving to his/her
past experiences.
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Armstrong (1987) explains:
The life history method had its early development in Chicago at
indented approximately the same time that interactionism was being
given its initial impetus, and this is no accident (p. 54).
The life history method assigns significance and value to the
persons own story, or to interpretations that people place on their own
experiences as an explanation for their own
behaviour
(p. 8).
This must be followed by the researchers idea
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