Full Description
Scholarship 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.
Contents
The 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
