1st Edition

Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research

Edited By Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Penelope Harnett Copyright 2010
200 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What stories can we tell of ourselves and others and why should they be of interest to others? Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research responds to these questions with examples from diverse educational and social contexts. The book brings together a collection of writing by different authors who use a narrative/life history approach to explore the... Read more

1. Introduction to the book, Ann-Marie Bathmaker and Penelope Harnett  2. The ethics of writing life histories and narratives in educational research, Pat Sikes  3. Literacy and numeracy histories – A case study of one child and his parent’s accounts of what was learned, Jane Andrews Senior Lecturer in Education  4. Interrogating identity and belonging through life history: experiences of overseas nurses in post colonial Britain, Shekar Bheenuck  5. ‘I lived down the road from you’: exploring power and identity, then and now, Jacky Brine  6. In Our Own Words. From Action to Learning Dialogues, Nick Clough  7. A process of (un)becoming: life history research and the connection between the personal, professional and teacher professional development, Christine Halse  8. This Do In Remembrance of Me: Narrative Uncertainty and the Frothing of Contentious Identity, James Haywood Rolling, Jr.  9. I’m being measured as an NQT, that isn’t who I am’: second career teachers entering the culture of the primary school, Liz Newman  10. A History of Not Seeing, Invisibility and Anchors: Images of Ethnic Minorities in History Textbooks, Dean Smart  11. Changing identities through re-engagement with education: Two narrative accounts, Richard Waller  12. Conclusion, Penelope Harnett and Ann-Marie Bathmaker

Biography

Ann-Marie Bathmaker is Professor of Further Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Penelope Harnett is Reader in Education and Head of the Department of Primary, Early Childhood and Education Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.