Segnaliamo la possibilità di iscriversi al research retreat programmato per il 4-7 marzo 2025 a Costa Rainera (IM) e che ha la finalità di condividere i risultati delle ricerche dei partecipanti e di preparare pubblicazioni in lingua inglese sui metodi biografici in educazione degli adulti.
Un'iniziativa organizzata dal nostro Dipartimento in collaborazione con il Life History and Biography Network della Società Europea di Ricerca in Educazione degli Adulti.
Tutte le info (costi, scadenze, calendario dei meetings online, modalità di preparazione...) nel documento allegato.
Per segnalare il proprio interesse a partecipare, scrivere a rob.evans@t-online.de
Scadenza 10 novembre
Dear colleague, the Life History and Biography Network is living a generative as well as risky transition due to internal and external reasons. In the last few years, we have explored new collaborative, transformative and aesthetical ways of meeting and sharing our research on narratives and biographies in adult lives and learning. By emphasizing networking and reciprocal knowledge, we have fuelled dialogue among researchers and with practitioners and artists, re-inventing the rhythms, organization, and purposes of our international meetings.
We interrogate the “presentation” as a normal one-way form of communication at conferences, since biographical research calls for authentic conversation and deep contact with the embodied, emotional, value-laden, and practical relationships that an adult can have with oneself, the Other and the World.
This innovative way to work together has attracted new colleagues, scared out others, and created discussions within and outside the Network. Besides, we are facing more challenges: a renovation of the convenors’ team, a growing difficulty of some to participate for lack of funding, a push to academic performance over quality. Presenting at conferences and publishing has become an obligation, more than a way to grow within a community. The possibility of living informal relationships and learn from each other is becoming rare in our workplaces, and the standardization of conferences mimics rituals of positivist science, objective, controlled, formalized, and generalized. To nurture experience-based, biographical human knowing and learning, we are seeking for good relational spaces where to grow and share critical feedback, and fuelling feelings of belonging and community.
This is why we are proposing for this year a research retreat, i.e. a community of practices where participants discuss their work, gain deeper knowledge, learn from each other, and develop further collaborations, not least writing together if the participants agree to put their efforts into it.
Participation, beauty, and meaning, then, are both the topic and method. If you are interested to know more about these words, if your research has anything to do with them, or simply you want to share biographical research in such a context, you are welcome. We will set up the conditions to work with you, over 3 days, far from home and institutional spaces.
The site is a small village in Italy on the Liguria coast, that can host a group of around 20 people, living close to each other for the time of the retreat. Informality will be the rule: we will prepare some of our meals, have biographical walks, explore artistic languages, and meet the physical and social context around us. Everyone will have a chance to “present” their research, react to others, and go beyond that.