The authors investigated the relationship between the acquisition of cultural life scripts and the degree of coherence in children's and adolescents' life stories. Three groups of Danish school children aged 9 to 15 years participated. In 3 sessions, they wrote down a recently experienced single autobiographical event, their life story, and their cultural life script. Single-event and life stor...

teachers are the most important players of every educational system in different societies; accordingly, understanding their personal reflections may help us gain valuable insights into what it means to be a teacher in a specific cultural and social context. the purpose of this case study was to investigate the life and career of 6 non-native english speaking teachers in state educational syste...

When do children develop the ability to imagine their future lives in terms of a coherent prospective life story? We investigated whether this ability develops in parallel with the ability to construct a life story for the past and narratives about single autobiographical events in the past and future. Four groups of school children aged 9 to 15 years imagined their future lives and produced pa...

This paper speculates about`stories' as potentially useful units to construct historically grounded artii-cial life forms. We draw our motivation from the structure and organisation of biological life forms and the organisation of human memory and sociality. A fresh approach towards historical artiicial life creatures is to develop story-telling systems supported on situation-ally grounded, dis...

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest among theorists and researchers in autobiographical recollections, life stories, and narrative approaches to understanding human behavior and experience. An important development in this context is D. P. McAdams's life story model of identity (1985, 1993, 1996), which asserts that people living in modern societies provide their lives with unity...

Music has always been a meaningful part of my life. I have been studying and performing since the age of five, but it was not until I was an adult, when my father was approaching the end of his life, that I realized just how profound the connection to music can be. While my father’s health was in decline, our strongest connections came from listening to music together. Listening to music that h...

Background: Isfahan, with a history of several thousand years, is a unique treasure of folklore and culture, and oral stories among its people are one of the oldest examples of thinking and imagination of the people of this province, which shows their quality and mental issues and sorrow. It is a valid and useful document of the social history of these people. This study aims to investigate the...