Published: 2021-12-31

Family biography – an attempt to reconstruct the dynamics of the development of the family system

Karolina Kuryś-Szyncel
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2021.2.13

Abstract

The article is of a conceptual and methodological nature, and its aim is to try to reconstruct the dynamics of the development of the family system using the biographical method. The theoretical basis are approaches derived from constructivism and social constructionism, systemic understanding of the family and concepts of biographical learning. The family is understood as a social system subject to the principles of wholeness and autopoiesis, which define the framework and possibilities of its development. The author's category of "family biography" was introduced, which means a multiplied (being something more than the sum of individual biographies) infinite (re) construction resulting from the tension between the course of family life and the story of the family life. The use of family biography as a way of describing system reality (taking into account its non-obvious dynamics) and as a determinant of collecting and analyzing empirical data is a new possibility in pedagogical family research.

Keywords:

pedagogy, autopoiesis, family biography, family development, family system, biographical learning

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Kuryś-Szyncel , K. (2021). Family biography – an attempt to reconstruct the dynamics of the development of the family system. Pedagogical Forum, 11(2), 183–195. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2021.2.13

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