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Before it finishes, this chapter will end up as a short summary of a rather long research undertaking aimed at detailing the different procedural means exploited by culturally mainstream and Aboriginal (or “First Nations”1) youth in their efforts to understand their own and others’, personal persist...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.504.4824 http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/lalonde/manuscripts/2003ChangingConceptions.pdf |
| Summary: | Before it finishes, this chapter will end up as a short summary of a rather long research undertaking aimed at detailing the different procedural means exploited by culturally mainstream and Aboriginal (or “First Nations”1) youth in their efforts to understand their own and others’, personal persistence or “self-continuity ” in the face of those wholesale personal changes that time and development inevitably hold in store. What was it, we wanted to know from each of them, that, “in the contemplation of their lives, links the parts to the whole ” (Dilthey, 1962, p. 201)? Before coming to an account of their diverse answers to such questions, however, it is important to first |
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