Wisdom and knowledge in researching and learning lives: diversity, difference and commonalities, ESREA

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Submitted by Steve Rubin on August 22, 2008 - 00:21
Mar 12 2009 00:00
Mar 15 2009 10:00
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Milano, Italy
European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, ESREA

Abstracts
Abstracts and proposals are called for to be submitted by 17th December 2008: on one side of A4 only, with names, affiliations and contact details on a separate sheet. Please mail to : [email protected]


Please note that ESREA will be offering 2 bursaries (250 EUR each) for doctorate students.

Conference Information
Biography, memory, narrative and knowledge are very crucial issues in the field of education, in the study and experiences of lifewide and lifelong learning, and in adult life as a whole. They are studied as objects, processes or focuses, that enable us to understand the way people learn, the choices they make (including how these may be structured), the role and nature of story, and how they make sense of and compose meaning in their lives (as well as our own). They are the main focus of our research. Auto/biographic and life history approaches are the common ground for the ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research.

However, recent Conferences in the Network have involved debates about the meaning of auto/biographical and life history research, its knowledge base, and around the different ways of researching and interpreting lives, across Europe. This has inspired the idea, for the 2009 Conference, of a wide-ranging theme, to encourage a deep discussion among participants of their methodological, epistemological, political and philosophical premises in researching lives and learning. This includes the nature of the knowledge, which informs our work, and the knowledge –informal, tacit, hermeneutic, emotional, biographical, as well as more formal – that people use in learning and living, in educational contexts and in their lives as a whole. The debate about knowledge has also found expression in how research and the researcher are positioned: as more objective and scientific, perhaps, or as more intersubjective and hermeneutic.  

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