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Book SynopsisScholarship on adult education has fueled a high level of methodological creativity and innovation in order to tackle a diverse range of issues in a wide range of settings and locations in a critical and participatory manner. Adult education research is marked by the desire to do research differently and to conduct critical research with rather than about people which requires theoretical and methodological creativity. This entails a particular approach to how we seek to know the world in collaboration with people, to rupture hierarchical relations and to create new collaborative spaces of learning and research that encompass the diversity of people’s life experiences. Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education brings together both leading and emerging scholars in adult education research in order to capture the vitality and complexity of contemporary adult education research. This includes contributions on biographical, narrative, embodied, arts and media-based and ethnographic methods alongside the critical use of quantitative and mixed methods. This distinctive and rich methodological contribution has a general relevance and usefulness for all researchers and students in the social science and humanities, which draws attention to the importance of critical and creative participatory learning processes in human life and learning.
Table of ContentsThe European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education Bernie Grummell and Fergal Finnegan Part 1: Biographical Methods and Oral History 2. Biographical Inquiry: A Collaborative and Egalitarian Approach to Adult Education Research Barbara Merrill 3. Down to the River: People’s Memories and Adult Education Emilio Lucio-Villegas 4. Transition to Adulthood: Learning from Young Adults through the Exploratory Use of Multiple Methods Andrea Galimberti, Laura Formenti and Mirella Ferrari 5. Collaborative Story Telling: The Poetry of Everyday Life and the Challenge of Transcription Siobhán Madden Part 2: The Auto/Ethnographic Imagination 6. Doing Ethnographic Research in Adult Education: Reflections on Studying Citizenship in a Study Circle Annika Pastuhov and Ari Sivenius 7. Autoethnography in, and as, Adult Education: Eavesdropping on a Conversation David McCormack, Jerry O’Neill, Mary B. Ryan and Tony Walsh Part 3: Arts Based Research and Creative Pedagogies 8. Finding Voice and Engaging Audiences: The Power of Arts-Based Community Engagement Shauna Butterwick and Carole Roy 9. Education Will Set You Free: Research Poetry with Prisoners on Adult Education Programmes Sarah Meaney 10. Seeing the Unseen through the Feminist Museum Hack Darlene E. Clover Part 4: Critical Mixed Methods and Critical Quantitative Research 11. Towards Critical and Dialogical Mixed Methods Resarch: Reflections on Our Journey Alison Taylor and Milosh Raykov 12. The Use of Bibliometrics in Adult Education Research Erik Nylander, Lovisa Österlund and Andreas Fejes Part 5: Digital Research Methods 13. Investigating Adult Skills Assessment in ESOnline: A Digital Ethnography Cormac O'Keeffe Part 6: Sound, Vision and Story-Telling 14. Pedagogy of Song and Restorying Hope: Stories and Songs as Social Movement Learning in Ada Songor Salt Movement Jonathan Langdon, Melissa Jackson and Sophia Kitcher 15. Visual Research Methods and New Masculine Subjectivities Ann Hegarty Part 7: Research on Embodied Knowledge and Movement 16. Research through, and on, Embodied Movement in Orienting One’s Self towards the Future Silvia Luraschi 17. Planning with People: Reflections on Participation and Learning on Deliberative Walks Peter Ehrström Part 8: Creative Dissemination 18. Creative, Critical and Democratic Research Dissemination: Learners’ Lives and Further Education Vicky Duckworth and Rob Smith
