Susan Riva La Tzoumaz is in the heart of the 4-Valley ski region in the Swiss Alps. The Swiss Ski School welcomes skiers from around the world, offering ski and snowboard lessons. The ski school also trains young skiers to become ski instructors. This learning organization teaches skiing in the heart of a beautiful Alpine …
Mountainscape: Learning to Ski in the Swiss Alps Read More »
Berit Bareksten, sociologist at HVL, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Jewellery in memory of beloved ones. My totally black bracelet, a gift from three of my friends – one of them dead already. She wasn’t ready to die from us. She had just moved into her new language of love – Italian. She became …
Dr Alice Charlotte Bell (Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Lincoln) In 2022 the artistic partnership, Fossey+Bell, Dr. Steve Fossey and Dr. Alice Bell; artists, practice-researchers and educators at the University of Lincoln, undertook a research experiment. Methodologically, we used artistic multidisciplinary approaches to immerse ourselves in a landscape undergoing a process of rewilding. As researchers we sought to …
Performing Eco-Recovery: A Trial Run in Our Skins Read More »
Peter Leyland During our discussion about space on the 13th of February, I thought about the metaphysical concept of the microcosm and the macrocosm which features in many of John Donne’s great poems. Here are two verses from two very different poems, The Good Morrow and A Valediction of Weeping, which could be appropriate today. “And now good morrow …
An echo of, and a dialogue with Hélène Cixous, on her writing about temporality, time, and poetryOr: “to write in the absent of the author?”, according to Cixous) Berit Bareksten, sociologist at HVL, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences My old grandfather clock woke me up this morning. Told me to meet this new day, and …
Helen Woodley (Assistant Professor, Northumbria University) I started playing Dungeons and Dragons during Lockdown. I was a relatively late joiner to the world of tabletop role playing games (TRPG) and I have to admit I was partly influenced by the Netflix series Stranger Things. I was also deeply influenced by Gadamer’s concept of a shared …
Silvia Luraschi (Adult Educator & Independent researcher collaborator, University of Milano Bicocca) andTom Troppe (PhD Student, Canterbury Christ Church University Horizon for a new vision: interdependence in Adult Education In recent dialogues, we have gone beyond sharing experiences as we described in Buddyscapes #1. Our sharing has taken on new purpose as research: to reflexively …
Peter Leyland A recent life event has made me think that Time is cyclical rather than linear. The event was the reunion of a group of friends from my sixth form days in Liverpool when the city was alive with creativity in art, music, poetry and ideas that the future was full of infinite possibility …
It was great to start our journey to the Life History and Biography Network meeting 2023 with the first on-line seminar in November. We have already had a series of excellent blog posts to get us thinking and our next landmark is the on-line seminar where we will be discussing educational temporalities. Monday 16th January at 15.00-16.00 CET(https://NTNU.zoom.us/j/91013002055?pwd=aDFaUExHRi9rYXJmcFdXeUxlN2lkdz09) To guide us …
Inger Helen Midtgård (Associate Professor in Community Work at HVL, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) I have always tried to do my best to develop and to take care of and preserve the good quality of my local community. To be honest, when I took my master’s degree in community work I didn’t realize …
Walking an article – Part 4 – To present the things I really care about Read More »