The Deficit of Recognition in Educational Narratives and its Biographical Consequences

The subject of the article is narrative, treated as a means of researching, describing, and understanding the social world. Narrative is understood here as both methodological orientation (narrative research) and identity (narrative identity, i.e., a sustained story about the "I"), as well as the outcome of the research, i.e., understanding based on the narratives listened to. The article explores whether school is, or perhaps can be, a space of recognition, answering this question based on the narratives of parents of early childhood education students and striking Polish teachers.