Transformative Learning Transforming Research

The Learner Identity of Researchers

Bibliographic Data

ID21866985
AuthorsTerry Fleming (0000-0001-5996-6174, Columbia University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume15
Issue1
Pages13-26
Publication date2024-02-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2000-7426 • E-ISSN: 2000-7426
PublisherLinköping University Electronic Press (PUBLISHER • SE)
DOI10.3384/rela.2000-7426.4841
OpenAlexW4391777576
LanguageEN
References cited21

Two research projects undertaken ten years ago explored the experiences of mature students’ access, progression and drop-out in higher education, relying on Habermas and Honneth for sensitizing concepts. This paper explores the implications of undertaking this research today adopting a different set of sensitizing concepts and in the process transforming the identity of the researcher. To this end, this paper moves beyond Habermas and Honneth to the critical theory of Negt and Kluge as a source of new sensitizing concepts informing a reimagined researcher and research project. Their work on experience, its dialectic nature, imploitation, obstinacy – as an alternative to resilience – and a sociological imagination are explored in order to identify possible new sensitizing concepts for researching adults returning to higher education. Implications for transformative adult education will be identified

Adult education · Adult Learning · Pedagogy · Sociology · Transformative learning · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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