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Adult education research is a part of biographical turn in social science research. Because of that, both research and theory became more dynamic. Biographical methodology is by no means strange for Polish researchers. Florian Znaniecki introduced the method in sociology and established it in Poland. Starting from 1921, it was used in a form of a written competition (autobiography) amongst different...
The article gives an idea of a new conceptualization of lifelong learning taking into account that learning in the life course is framed by cultural and mentality patterns. The background resource of our learning potential represents both an intimate personal dimension and a vivid social aspect. The concept of ‘biographicity’ has been created as an expression of this interwovenness. Empirical examples...
‘Biographicity’ is a concept that has been discussed in international adult education for more than 30 years. It has stimulated research concepts and has become a metaphor for the resilience potential of biographical learning processes in modernised modern societies. A basic theoretical foundation has so far been lacking. This article attempts to provide such a foundation. It first introduces the...
This text is an attempt to answer the question of how to construct educational experiences in the professional biography of adults and their location within the practices of lifelong learning. To this end, the author presents the results of research on the ways in which public school teachers give meaning to their own professional experiences. Next she tries to show that the issues revealed as a result...
Niniejszy tekst jest próbą poszukiwania odpowiedzi na pytanie o sposoby konstruowania uczących doświadczeń w zawodowej biografii dorosłych i ich usytuowaniu w obrębie praktyk całożyciowego uczenia się. W tym celu autorka prezentuje wyniki badań dotyczące sposobów nadawania znaczeń własnym doświadczeniom zawodowym przez nauczycieli szkół publicznych, a następnie próbuje pokazać, że ujawnione w wyniku...
This paper will look at the rich narratives of a young Belarusian professional, Aleksandra, collected in audio and video narratives and interviews since the autumn and winter 2020-2021. By looking in detail at Aleksandra’s experiences of the 2020 movement for democracy in Belarus, the paper will try to illuminate the work done by Aleksandra to give sense to her self-narrative, and to locate the voice...
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