Hazel R. Wright My first night in Norway I was a guest of Inger-Helen, rather daunted initially by how far she is from the city – a distance measured in bridges and tunnels carved through the mountains and exposing the rocks within – what a geographer’s delight! We were all invited for dinner, but I …
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Silvia Luraschi (Adult Educator & Independent researcher collaborator, University of Milano Bicocca) andTom Troppe (PhD Student, Canterbury Christ Church University Buddyscapes documents a relationship which originated in the annual meeting of the Life History and Biography Network (LHBN) of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) convened at the University of Lower …
Berit Bareksten (sociologist at HVL, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) I did a walk with them, through my neighborhood of belonging, in my well-known landscape of trust and joy. We stopped at the primary school with children playing outside with the first snow this winter. It was like they saw something they never had …
Gaia Del Negro & Silvia Luraschi (independent researchers collaborators at the University of Milano Bicocca) Two days ago, we (Gaia & Silvia) had the possibility to listen to our colleague Berit Bareksten telling us about her work for the local library in the neighborhood where she lives in Bergen. Berit walked us through a residential …
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Peter Leyland – Conjugate the verb hablar for the class I drew my gaze down from the ceiling to find myself the centre of silent attention. Mr Richards was addressing me, yes me, and a finger was pointing accusingly. Blushing I stood and, holding my orange text book awkwardly, began: – Hablo’ – habla’s – habla’ – habla’mos …
Antonella Cuppari (PhD Student, University of Milano-Bicocca) I have waited three years for that moment when I would take my last step to the top carried on my shoulders together with vertigo and now, looking up, only sky full not cut out and everything turns upside down again the end becomes beginning again I no …
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Where can one ‘be, become and belong’ and what are meaningful educational places? The Life History and Biography Network meeting 2023 will meet to collectively address these questions. As a point of departure, we will conceptualize belonging as relational and situated, embedded in lived power relations, social structures, and personal struggles; constantly felt, negotiated and …
Exploring belonging and meaning:
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