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Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research - An Ecology of Life and Learning (Hardcover)
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Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research - An Ecology of Life and Learning (Hardcover)
Series: Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 10
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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, communities, societies, and
networks - that can create or destroy hope. Telling or listening to
life stories celebrates complexity, messiness, and the rich
potential of learning lives. The narratives in this book highlight
the rapid disruption of sustainable ecologies, not only 'natural',
physical, and biological, but also psychological, economic,
relational, political, educational, cultural, and ethical. Yet,
despite living in a precarious, and often frightening, liquid
world, biographical research can both chronicle and illuminate how
resources of hope are created in deeper, aesthetically satisfying
ways. Biographical research offers insights, and even signposts, to
understand and transcend the darker side of the human condition,
alongside its inspirations. Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in
Biographical Research aims to generate insight into people's fears
and anxieties but also their capacity to 'keep on keeping on' and
to challenge forces that would diminish their and all our humanity.
It provides a sustainable approach to creating sufficient hope in
individuals and communities by showing how building meaningful
dialogue, grounded in social justice, can create good enough
experiences of togetherness across difference. The book illuminates
what amounts to an ecology of life, learning and human flourishing
in a sometimes tortured, fractious, fragmented, and fragile world,
yet one still offering rich resources of hope.
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