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Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research Research on the Education and Learning of Adults Series Editors (On behalf of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Emilio Lucio-Villegas (University of Seville, Spain) Barbara Merrill (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) Henning Salling Olesen (Roskilde University, Denmark) Cristina C. Vieira (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Editorial Advisory Board Michal Bron Jr. (Södertörn University College, Sweden) Anja Heikkinen (University of Tampere, Finland) Françoise F. Laot (University Paris-Descartes, France) Linda Morrice (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland) Angela Pilch-Ortega (Graz University, Austria) Andreas Wallo (Linköping University, Sweden) Georgios Zarifis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) volume 10 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/esre Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research An Ecology of Life and Learning Edited by Alan Bainbridge, Laura Formenti and Linden West leiden | boston This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ The terms of the CC license apply only to the original material. 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Contents The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (Esrea) vii Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors x Introduction: Towards an Ecological Perspective on Learning and the Stories People Tell 1 Alan Bainbridge, Laura Formenti and Linden West PART 1 Discourses of Ecology and Learning 1 When Lake Erie Is Polluted, We Are Too 23 Laura Formenti and Linden West 2 Biographical Interviews and the Micro Context of Biographicity: Closely Listening for Meaning, Learning, and Voice 39 Rob Evans 3 Narrative Regimes: An Alliance between Descriptive Phenomenology and Biography 53 Hervé Breton 4 Biographical Research at the Boundary: A Careful Listening for the Micro, Meso, and Macro in End-of-Life Care 65 Kjetil Moen 5 Trying to Capture the Value of the ‘Live’ Conference Using an Ecological Approach 77 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 95 Richard D. Sawyer vi Contents 7 Beyond Truth: A Pragmatist Approach to Narrative Pedagogy in Professional Learning for Healthcare Practitioners 107 Laura Mazzoli Smith 8 A Key? Conflict, and the Struggle for an Ecology of Dialogue, Learning and Peace among Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Educators 121 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 143 Barbara Merrill 10 Some Reflections on the Meaning, Limits and Challenges of Critical Biographical Research 157 Fergal Finnegan 11 Storytelling, Culture, and Indigenous Methodology 170 Adrienne S. Chan 12 Profession Reimagined: Tackling Adult Educators’ Alienation through Multimodal Ways of Knowing 186 Gaia Del Negro 13 The PhD and Me: A Liminal Space 203 Paula Stone Conclusion: An Evolution of Ideas: The Transformative Ecological Imagination in Adult Learning, Education, and Research 217 Alan Bainbridge, Laura Formenti and Linden West Index 227 The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (Esrea) ESREA is a European scientific society. It was established in 1991 to provide a European-wide forum for all researchers engaged in research on adult educa- tion and learning and to promote and disseminate theoretical and empirical research in the field. Since 1991 the landscape of adult education and learning has changed to include more diverse learning contexts at formal and informal levels. At the same time there has been a policy push by the European Un- ion, OECD, UNESCO and national governments to promote a policy of lifelong learning. ESREA provides an important space for these changes and (re)defini- tion of adult education and learning in relation to research, theory, policy and practice to be reflected upon and discussed. This takes place at the triennial conference, network conferences and through the publication of books and a journal. Esrea Research Networks The major priority of ESREA is the encouragement of co-operation between active researchers in the form of thematic research networks which encourage inter- disciplinary research drawing on a broad range of the social sciences. These research networks hold annual/biennial seminars and conferences for the exchange of research results and to encourage publications. The current active ESREA networks are: Access, Learning Careers and Identities Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development Between Global and Local: Adult Learning and Development Education and Learning of Older Adults Gender and Adult Learning History of Adult Education and Training in Europe Interrogating Transformative Processes in Learning: An International Ex- change Life-history and Biographical Research Migration, Ethnicity, Racism and Xenophobia Policy Studies in Adult Education Working Life and Learning viii The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults Esrea Triennial European Research Conference In order to encourage the widest possible forum for the exchange of ongoing research activities ESREA holds a triennial European Research Conference. The conferences have been held in Strobl (1995), Bruxelles (1998), Lisbon (2001), Wroclaw (2004), Seville (2007), Linköping (2010), Berlin (2013) and Maynooth (2016). Esrea Journal ESREA publishes a scientific open access journal entitled The European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA). All issues of the journal can be read at www.rela.ep.liu.se. You can also find more information about call for papers and submission procedures on this website. Esrea Books ESREA’s research networks and conferences have led to the publication of over forty books. A full list, giving details of the various publishers, and the books’ availability, is on the ESREA website. ESREA’s current book series is published in co-operation with Brill. Further information on ESREA is available at www.esrea.org Emilio Lucio-Villegas Barbara Merrill Henning Salling Olesen Cristina C. Vieira Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge the work of all our colleagues in ESREA, and especially those belonging to the Life History and Biography Network, in the genus of this book. It is the outcome of a collective quest since 1993 for deeper illumination and understanding of adult learning and educational processes, in diverse contexts. We wish to acknowledge the spirit of collaboration too, across national and language communities, which include the whole of Europe and a wider world. We celebrate the continuing influence of founding fathers and mothers who helped build such a vibrant, sustaining ecology of research, life, and learning; especially Peter Alheit, Agnieszka Bron, Pierre Dominicé, Marianne Horsdal, Barbara Merrill, and Henning Salling Olesen. Notes on Contributors Alan Bainbridge began working in Higher Education in 2001, having previously taught in sec- ondary schools for 18 years. He is interested in the contested space between psychoanalytic thought and practices and education in its widest sense. He has written on how life history influences the development of educational profes- sional practice and is currently using ideas linked to the Marxian and Freudian fetish to explore education processes. He is also interested in the interconnec- tion between human learning and the “natural world”. He is a co-coordinator of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Life History and Biography Network. Hervé Breton is Associate Professor in Education Sciences at the University of Tours. He is a member of the research team Education Ethics Health (EA7505) and President of the International Association of Life Stories