Biographical research offers insights, and even signposts, to understand and transcend the darker side of the human condition, alongside its inspirations.ĭiscourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research aims to generate insight into people’s fears and anxieties but also their capacity to 'keep on keeping on' and to challenge forces that would diminish their and all our humanity. Yet, despite living in a precarious, and often frightening, liquid world, biographical research can both chronicle and illuminate how resources of hope are created in deeper, aesthetically satisfying ways. The narratives in this book highlight the rapid disruption of sustainable ecologies, not only ‘natural’, physical, and biological, but also psychological, economic, relational, political, educational, cultural, and ethical. Telling or listening to life stories celebrates complexity, messiness, and the rich potential of learning lives. Biographical research is not an isolated, individual, solipsistic endeavor but shaped by larger ecological interactions – in families, schools, universities, communities, societies, and networks – that can create or destroy hope. This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives.
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