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Title: Using Biographical and Life History Approaches in the Study of Adult and Lifelong Learning: European Perspectives

Using Biographical and Life History Approaches in the Study of Adult and Lifelong Learning: European Perspectives

by Linden West (Volume editor) Peter Alheit (Volume editor) Anders Siig Anderson (Volume editor) Barbara Merrill (Volume editor)
©2007 Edited Collection 310 Pages
Education
Series: European Studies in Lifelong Learning and Adult Learning Research, Volume 2

Summary

This book illuminates the rich and creative uses of biographical and life history approaches in studying adult and lifelong learning, in diverse ways and settings, across many European countries. It draws on the work of internationally known scholars – under the auspices of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) – and encompasses learning in the workplace, in families, communities, schools, colleges and universities, as well as in the professions, and in managing processes of migration and building new social movements. The reader will discover, in these pages, a compelling chronicle of the interplay of learning across people’s lives – formal, informal and intimate – and how to make sense of this, using interdisciplinary perspectives. The book will speak to researchers – new and experienced – and educators and other professionals wanting to extend their understanding of learners and learning as well as the potential of this ‘family’ of research methods.

Details

Pages
310
Publication Year
2007
ISBN (PDF)
9783653032376
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03237-6
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (April)
Keywords
Biographieforschung Erwachsenenbildung Adult education Schooling Chicago School Non-formal learning Formal learning Frankfurt School Learning
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. 310 pp., 4 graphs
Product Safety
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Biographical notes

Linden West (Volume editor) Peter Alheit (Volume editor) Anders Siig Anderson (Volume editor) Barbara Merrill (Volume editor)

The Editors: Linden West is Reader in Education in the Department of Educational Research at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and Co-Director of the Centre for International Studies of Diversity and Participation. He co-ordinates the Biographical and Life History Research Network of ESREA and is a member of the Society’s Steering Committee. He is presently working on families and their learning, using auto/biographical perspectives. He is also a qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Peter Alheit, Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Ph.D. in Sociology, is currently Professor of General Education at Göttingen University, Germany and one of the initiators of biographical research in German sociology and education as well as co-founder of the ESREA Life History and Biography Research Network. Anders Siig Andersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. He teaches in The Graduate School in Lifelong Learning. His main research interests are the interplay between the work place as a learning environment and learning in life history, educational reforms in adult education and qualitative methodology. Barbara Merrill is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests are access and experiences of adult students; gender, class and adult education; learning careers and identities; citizenship and community-based learning and biographical methods. She co-ordinates the ESREA Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network and is a member of the ESREA Steering Committee.

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Title: Using Biographical and Life History Approaches in the Study of Adult and Lifelong Learning: European Perspectives