• Conference presentation listings
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British Educational Research Association (BERA)Annual Conference was held on 6-8 September 2007. The Project Team presented a symposium entitled “Continuity and Change in Lifelong Learning: Insights from the ‘Learning Lives’ Project”.

• What does it take to learn from one’s life? Exploring opportunities for biographical learning in the lifecourse by Michael Tedder and Gert Biesta – University of Exeter, UK.

• In/formality in lifelong learning careers by Phil Hodkinson, University of Leeds, UK; Ruth Hawthorn, NICEC, UK; Geoff Ford, NICEC, UK; Heather Hodkinson, University of Leeds, UK.

• Getting stuck, becoming unstuck – transitions and blockages between learning contexts by Heather Lynch and John Field
  University of Stirling, Scotland.

• Role Configurations and Pathways: A Latent Structure Approach to Studying Learning in the Life Course by Flora Macleod and Paul Lambe - University of Exeter, UK.

The Second Nordic Conference on adult learning took place at the Linköping University, Sweden between 17-19 April 2007. John Field (Stirling University) presented a paper entitled 'Social Capital Lifewide Learning: current research, new opportunities'. (Please follow link to Power Point Presentation)

ESREA (European Society for Research on Education of Adults) Network Conference on Life History and Biography March 1st-4th 2007 Roskilde University, Denmark

• Hodkinson, P. and Macleod F. (2007) "Contrasting Concepts of Learning and Contrasting Research Methodologies: some strengths and weaknesses of life history research"
• Goodson, I. and Adair, N. (2007) "Finding our Story: Sequences and Dispositions in Learning Lives"
• Hodkinson, H. (2007) "Learning as becoming through the Lifecourse. Contrasting and changing relationships with identity"
• Tedder, M. and Biesta, G. (2007) "Learning from life and learning for life. Exploring the opportunities for biographical learning in the lives of adults"
• Adair, N.E. (2007)"A Story of evolving meaning making in relation to concepts of learning as experienced by the researcher"
• Lynch, H. (2007) "Learning as desire"

TLRP New Career Researchers Conference Paul Lambe presented a paper Mapping Adult Learning over the Life Course. Bristol 27-28 February 2007.

European Vocational Educational & Training and Culture Network's 2006 Conference. A paper presented by Heather Hodkinson "Divergent perspectives on learning at, for and through work". Copenhagen, Denmark 23-26 August 2006.

ESRC/TLRP Thematic Seminar Series 'Transition through the Life Course: the effects of identity, agency and structure' A paper presented by Gert Biesta and Michael Tedder " Agency and Learning in the Lifecourse ", London 16 May 2006.

• Malcolm,I.(2006), " Life history research as emotional labour: power, class and gender in transitional spaces"
• Goodson, I. and N. Adair (2006), " In Search of 'Home': Becoming and Belonging"

American Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2006 A paper presented by Gert Biesta "Learning Lives: Learning, Identity and Agency in the Life-course. Presented as part of the symposium 'A strategy for the defence, improvement and promotion of educational research: An international example (65.063). San Francisco, 7-11 April 2006.

• Hodkinson, H. (2005). Learning as becoming, in changing experiences of work throughout life.

• Hodkinson, H. (2005). Combining life history and longitudinal qualitative research to explore transitions and learning in the life course.

• Malcolm, I. and J. Field (2005). Researching Learning/Working Lives: Issues of Identity, Agency and Changing Experiences of Work
• Ecclestone, K., T. Blackmore, G.J.J. Biesta, H. Colley and M. Hughes (2005) Transitions through the lifecourse: Political, professional and academic perspectives.

• Biesta, G.J.J. (2005). Towards the learning democracy: In search of spaces for democratic learning.

• Biesta, G.J.J. (2005). What's the point of lifelong learning if lifelong learning has not point?

• Tedder, M.T. and P. Jones (2005): Learners' perspectives of progression in Adult and Community Learning (ACL).

35th Annual SCUTREA Conference SCUTREA (Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults), 5-7 July 2005, on Diversity & Difference in Lifelong Learning.

• Malcolm, I. and Field, J. (2005). Researching Learning/Working Lives: Issues of Identity, Agency and Changing Experiences of Work.

• Field, J. & Biesta, G.J.J., F. Macleod and I. Malcolm (2005). Researching Learning, Identity and Agency across the life course: The Learning Lives project
• Biesta, G.J.J., Hodkinson, Ph. & Goodson, I. (2005). Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Methodological Observations from the 'Learning Lives' Project
• Field, J. and I. Malcolm (2005). Talking about my Generation: Learning, Identity and Agency - The Role of Historical Time and Generational Time over the Life Course

• Field, J. (2005). Time and Generation in Researching the Life Histories of Adult Learners.

• Biesta, G.J.J. (2005). Is learning the business of education?

• Adair, N. and I. Malcolm, (2005). Ethnical Engagement: Collecting the Learning Biographies of Adults"
• Biesta, G.J.J. (2004). Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Some Methodological Observations from the 'Learning Lives' Project.

• Adair, N. (2005). Effect of researchers and researched; the 'what's in it for me' conundrum.

• Biesta, G.J.J. (2004). Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Some Methodological Observations from the 'Learning Lives' Project.

• Workshop presentation: Goodson, I and N. Adair, (2003) 'Professional knowledge, professional lives'.

LSRN (Learning and Skills Research Network) Regional Conference, 'Learning and Skills Initiative - Listening to Stakeholder' Voices, Ilminster, July 2004.

• Sherring, N. and M.T. Tedder (2004): Practitioner Perspectives of Progression for Adults in Community Learning.

• Field, J. (2008) 'Good for your soul? Adult learning and mental well-being'. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 28,2,2010.

• Hodkinson, P., Ford, G., Hodkinson, H. & Hawthorn, R. (2008) 'Retirement as a Learning Process', Educational Gerontology, 34:3, 167 - 184

• Macleod, F. & Lambe, P. (2008) Dynamics of adult participation in part time education and training: results from the British Household Panel Survey has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Research Papers in Education on Widening Participation

• Field, J. & Malcolm, I. (2007) "Talking about my learning generation: the role of historical time and generational time over the life course", pages 67-78 in M. Osborne, M. Houston and N. Toman (eds.), The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning: Understanding effective teaching and learning in diverse contexts, Routledge, London

• Macleod, F. & Lambe, P. (2007) Patterns and trends in part-time adult education participation in relation to UK nation, class, place of participation, gender, age and disability, 1998-2003. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 26(4):399-418.

• Biesta, G. (2007) Why 'what works' won't work. Evidence-based practice and the democratic deficit of educational research. Educational Theory 57(1): 1-22

• Biesta, G. & Tedder, M. (2007) Agency and Learning in the Lifecourse: Towards an Ecological Perspective. Studies in the Education of Adults. Issue 39(2): 132-149

• Adair, N. E. (2006) Tell me your life story: the freedom to speak, the fear to say, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).

• Biesta, G.J.J., Tedder M.T. (2006) Agency and learning in the lifecourse, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).

• Biesta, G.J.J. (2006) What’s the point of lifelong learning if lifelong learning has no point? On the democratic deficit of policies for lifelong learning. European Educational Research Journal, 5(3-4), 169-180.

• Field, J. & Malcolm, I. (2006) Working identities: gender, agency and social class, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).

• Goodson, I.F. (2006) The reformer knows best, destroying the teacher's vocation, Forum, 48(3), 257-264.

• Hodkinson, H.D., Ford, G., Hawthorn, R. & Hodkinson, P.M. (2006) The phased engagement of adults in formal education and training, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).

• Hodkinson, P.M., Ford, G, Hawthorn, R. & Hodkinson, H.D. (2006) The place of formal education and training in learning as becoming, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).

• Macleod, F.J. & Lambe, P.J. (2006) The occurrence and timing of return to adult learning among 1997/8 initial full time education leavers in England, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).

• Biesta, G.J.J., Hodkinson, P. and Goodson, I. (June, 2005). Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Methodological Observations from the 'Learning Lives' Project.
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference: What a Difference a Pedagogy Makes: Researching lifelong learning and teaching edited by J. Caldwell et al.
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• Field, J. and Malcolm, I.(June, 2005). Talking about my Generation: learning, identity and agency - the role of historical time and generational time over the life course
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference: What a Difference a Pedagogy Makes: Researching lifelong learning and teaching edited by J. Caldwell et al.
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• Malcolm, I. and Field, J. (2005). Researching learning/working lives: issues of identity, agency and changing experiences of work
  Education-line database: Diversity and Difference in Lifelong Learning edited by P. Coare et al.