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autobiographical theory  

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  • Before the 1970s, virtually no autobiographical scholarship existed in the field of curriculum studies. In the realms of literature and literary criticism, classical Western autobiographies for a number of years had focused on public figures and were, for the most part, written by men. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Autobiographical Theory]

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