Whose story now?: (re)generating research in adult learning and teaching

SCUTREA, the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research into the Education of Adults, is a professional network for institutions, departments and individuals engaged in the education and training of adults and/or in research in continuing education. Each year in July, SCUTREA holds a three-day conference. The following papers were presented at the 2004 conference: An own voice: changing selves, changing stories - the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ in Egyptian students’ learning biographies / Rob Evans; The way we (should?) live now: research, social policy and lived experience in an ageing society / Tilda Gaskell; Adult education: was there an ‘embodied argument’?: if so, what happened to it? / Ian Martin; Writing across the divide / Alison McConnell-Imbriotis; Telling tales of literacy: a case study / June Smith, Richard Edwards; The role of spirituality and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in (re)generating research and teaching in US medical education / Elizabeth J. Tisdell; Studying at a long-term residential college / Malcom Ball; ‘How do they do that?’: experts go to town on their tasks and visit Gap / Peter Gray; Where have we been?: where are we going?: a critical reflection on a collaborative inquiry / Colleen Aalsburg Wiessner; What does lifelong learning do to the discourse of participation? / Jim Crowther; Foucauldian pastoral power and feminist organizations: a research direction for adult education / Leona M. English; AP(E)L in Irish higher education: preliminary findings from a Socrates-Grundtvig research project / Anne Murphy; Intercultural communication research and lifelong learning: perspectives from a European project / Brec’hed Piette; Educating the virtuous citizen / David Sullivan; Serving different research agendas in adult learning and teaching: a New Zealand story / Nick Zepke, Linda Leach; Regenerating conviviality in adult learning: towards a research agenda / Paul Armstrong; Speaking out loud: narrative structures, critical literacy and regenerative influences / Freda Chapple; New therapeutic stories: the demoralisation of critical pedagogy / Kathryn Ecclestone; What’s life got to do with it?: regenerating the researcher / Sol Haring; Who’s sorry now?: lifelong learning and feminist activism / Sue Jackson; Non-traditional students - tracking changing learning identities in the inter-face with higher education / Renie Johnston, Barbara Merrill; Feminist popular education: empowering women in a globalized world / Karen Kjellquist-Gutierrez; One year, no weddings and two funerals: working towards meaning and regeneration through auto/biographical stories / Nod Miller; Theories of dynamic systems and emergence: new possibilities for an epistemology of the ‘close up’? / Tamson Haggis; Framing adult education: generating or re-generating our perspective on the adult learner / Ann Jackson; Whose story counts?: adult students’ and facilitators’ perceptions of teaching and learning in adult education / Wapula Nelly Raditloaneng; Space invaders: troubling learning spaces at work / Nicky Solomon, Donna Rooney, David Boud; Transformations: (re)generating research in adult education? / Margaret Somerville; Study skills in a South African context: how are first year students helped? / Peter Sutherland; Sustainability and lifelong learning: re-purposing adult education / John Blewitt; Alice through the learning glass: some adventures in Wonderland / Susan Geertshuis; Whose story do museums tell?: researching museums as sites of adult learning / Sotiria Grek; Generating research in adult off-the-job training from a participatory learning perspective: a case study / Hsun-Chih Adam Li; Digesting the metaphor: exploring everyday learning at work / Donna Rooney, Nicky Solomon; Inspection and the impact on practice: issues of state intervention and quality in post-compulsory education / John Wallis; Combining personal and social transformation through training and education?: an analysis of two community research courses in Coventry / Mini Bhogal, Mick Carpenter, Stephen Handsley; Contract research into vocational education for Indigenous adult learners in Australia - whose interests are being served? / Tom Stehlik; Learning and literacies: telling stories and writing lives / Lyn Tett; Adult learners’ stories of learning, activism and regeneration / Sue Webb; Re-generating our stories: psychoanalytic perspectives, learning and the subject called the learner / Linden West; Mentorship, transformative learning and nurture: adult education challenges in research supervision / Peter Willis. Show less