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

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

The book brings together a collection of writing by different authors who use a narrative/life history approach to explore the experiences of a wide range of people, reflecting on learning and education at significant moments in their lives.

@contents: Selected Contents: 1. Introduction to the book 2. The ethics of writing life histories and narratives in educational research 3. Literacy and numeracy histories - A case study of one child and his parent's accounts of what was learned 4. Interrogating identity and belonging through life history: experiences of overseas nurses in post colonial Britain 5. 'I lived down the road from you': exploring power and identity, then and now 6. In Our Own Words. From Action to Learning Dialogues 7. A process of (un)becoming: life history research and the connection between the personal, professional and teacher professional development 8. This Do In Remembrance of Me: Narrative Uncertainty and the Frothing of Contentious Identity 9. I'm being measured as an NQT, that isn't who I am': second career teachers entering the culture of the primary school 10. A History of Not Seeing, Invisibility and Anchors: Images of Ethnic Minorities in History Textbooks 11. Changing identities through re-engagement with education: Two narrative accounts 12. Conclusion