Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research : an ecology of life and learning /

"This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives. Biographical research is not an isolated, individual, solipsistic endeavor but shaped by larger ecological interactions - in families, schools, universities...

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Other authors / contributors: Bainbridge, Alan (Editor), Formenti, Laura (Editor), West, Linden (Editor)
Imprint: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Sense, [2021]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Series:Research on the education and learning of adults, volume10
Table of Contents:
  • The European society for research on the education of adults (ESREA)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction: towards an ecological perspective on learning and the stories people tell / Alan Bainbridge, Laura Formenti and Linden West
  • Part 1: discourses of ecology and learning
  • When Lake Erie Is polluted, we are too / Laura Formenti and Linden West
  • Biographical interviews and the micro context of biographicity: closely listening for meaning, learning, and voice / Rob Evans
  • Narrative regimes: an alliance between descriptive phenomenology and biography / Hervé Breton
  • Biographical research at the boundary: a careful listening for the micro, meso, and macro in end-of-life care / Kjetil Moen
  • Trying to capture the value of the 'live' conference using an ecological approach / Hazel R. Wright and Marianne Høyen
  • Part 2: dialogue on learning together, and Its distress
  • Dynamic ecologies of person and place: dialogic ethnographies as public engagement / Richard D. Sawyer
  • Beyond truth: a pragmatist approach to narrative pedagogy in professional learning for healthcare practitioners / Laura Mazzoli Smith
  • A key? conflict, and the struggle for an ecology of dialogue, learning and peace among Israeli Jewish and Palestinian educators / Alan Bainbridge and Linden West
  • Part 3: diversity as a content and as a feature of biographic inquiry
  • Understanding women's lives through critical feminist perspectives: working-class women students in higher education / Barbara Merrill
  • Some reflections on the meaning, limits and challenges of critical biographical research / Fergal Finnegan
  • storytelling, culture, and Indigenous methodology / Adrienne S. Chan
  • Profession reimagined: tackling adult educators' alienation through multimodal ways of knowing / Gaia Del Negro
  • The PhD and me: a liminal space / Paula Stone
  • Conclusion: an evolution of ideas: the transformative ecological imagination in adult learning, education, and research / Alan Bainbridge, Laura Formenti and Linden West.