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Record Nr.

UNINA9910558098203321

Autore

Grummell Bernie

Titolo

Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education : Case Studies in Methodology and Theory / / Bernie Grummell, Fergal Finnegan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2020

Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill | Sense, , 2020

ISBN

90-04-42075-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Research on the Education and Learning of Adults; ; 9

Disciplina

374

Soggetti

Adult education

Learning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.