{"product_id":"discourses-dialogue-and-diversity-in-biographical-research-an-ecology-of-life-and-learning-9789004465909","title":"Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research: An Ecology of Life and Learning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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  1 When Lake Erie Is Polluted, We Are Too   Laura Formenti and Linden West  2 Biographical Interviews and the Micro Context of Biographicity: Closely Listening for Meaning, Learning, and Voice   Rob Evans  3 Narrative Regimes: An Alliance between Descriptive Phenomenology and Biography   Hervé Breton  4 Biographical Research at the Boundary: A Careful Listening for the Micro, Meso, and Macro in End-of-Life Care   Kjetil Moen  5 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  6 Dynamic Ecologies of Person and Place: Dialogic Ethnographies as Public Engagement   Richard D. Sawyer  7 Beyond Truth: A Pragmatist Approach to Narrative Pedagogy in Professional Learning for Healthcare Practitioners   Laura Mazzoli Smith  8 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 Enquiry  9 Understanding Women’s Lives through Critical Feminist Perspectives: Working-Class Women Students in Higher Education   Barbara Merrill  10 Some Reflections on the Meaning, Limits and Challenges of Critical Biographical Research   Fergal Finnegan  11 Storytelling, Culture, and Indigenous Methodology   Adrienne S. Chan  12 Profession Reimagined: Tackling Adult Educators’ Alienation through Multimodal Ways of Knowing   Gaia Del Negro  13 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    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210825195863,"sku":"9789004465909","price":117.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/discourses-dialogue-and-diversity-in-biographical-research-an-ecology-of-life-and-learning-9789004465909","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}