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Key Idea: Re-selfing

In our study of lifelong learning the Learning Lives project a pattern of re-selfing could be discerned among certain groups. Re-selfing refers to the capacity to generate new visions of selfhood in response to life transitions. This capacity allows a flexible response and a practised facility to develop new courses of action when the context of a life changes significantly as through say redundancy, illness, retirement or bereavement.