Learning Lives: a Project of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Project

Publications and Conference Presentations

The Truth About Learning Conference was held at The Exchange, Bridgewater, Somerset on 31st January 2008. Keynote inputs were made by Professor Gert Biesta director of the Learning Lives project and Professor Kathryn Eccleston, a former member of the TLRP exective committee.

The Learning from Life presentation by Professor Gert Biesta

TLRP and Methodology: What learned? What next? TLRP Annual Conference, Marriott Hotel Cardiff 26-27th November 2007

This year’s two day conference focused on developments in research methodology over the first eight years of TLRP, and provided an opportunity to discuss innovations, opportunities and future directions.
The conference was a more intensely focused event than usual, showcasing the work of TLRP’s thematic investments on methodological issues.

Gert Biesta and Flora Macleod from the Exeter Team made presentation contributions at the conference.

Papers were presented at the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association (BERA), 6-8 September 2007 as part of the Symposium “Continuity and Change in Lifelong Learning: Insights from the ‘Learning Lives’ Project”
BERA SIG: Post Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning
Symposium 8688, Session 8.07, Saturday 8 September 9.00-10.30

and at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), the Annual Meeting of the European Educational Research Association (EERA), on 19-21 September 2007 as part of the Symposium “Combining Methodologies to Study Learning in the Life Course: Insights from the Learning Lives Project”
ECER Network 19: Ethnography Symposium P686, Session 7, Thursday 20 September, 15.30-17.00.

Recent Publications

Goodson I.F. (2006) The rise of the life narrative, Teacher Education Quarterly 33(4)
Goodson I.F. (2007) All the lonely people: the struggle for private meaning and public purpose in education, Critical Studies in Education, 48(1):1-18.
Field, J. & Malcolm, I. (2007) Talking about learning generations: the role of historical time and generational time over the life course, in M. Osborne, M. Houston, N. Toman (Eds) Researching the pedagogy of lifelong learning (London and New York, Routledge).
Macleod, F.J. & Lambe, P.J. (2007) Adult education participation in the UK: a British Household Panel Survey analysis in relation to nation, class, place, gender, age and disability, International Journal of Lifelong Education, 26(4):399-418.

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