Dojrzewanie do siebie przez autobiografię

The text is an analysis of a set of scenarios of biographical workshops made by Kamila Lasocińska and Joanna K. Wawrzyniak called Autobiography as a creative challenge. The author draws attention to the interdisciplinary nature of the volume and asks question about place of literary in the publications that have a practical use in biographical education. Creation of self-narration as a method of supporting the development of not only the elderly, is justified in sociology, psychology and in pedagogy which is nearest to the authors’ discipline. The author suggests, however, that the use of literary’s tools and awareness of the role of autobiography in contemporary literary criticism, may be a valuable addition to the proposals that come from the social sciences.