Lifelong Learning Goes to the Movies: Autobiographical Narratives as Media Production

A blockbuster of a paper (nominated for Best Foreign Contribution) in which the heroine describes a perilous path through the territory of narrative theory and text construction. She encounters the threshold guardians of writer’s block and self-doubt, wrestles with shapeshifters, tricksters and shadows, rallies after encounters with mentors and allies and returns to the ordinary world with the elixir of lifelong learning (or, at least, a completed conference paper)

Applying Insights from Cultural Studies to Adult Education: What Seinfeld Says About the AERC

The zany adventures of a glamorous British professor who goes to an important international conference but spends most of her time searching for a TV in order to watch her favourite sitcom. Despite her commitment to \u27no hugging, no learning\u27, she gains some profound insights into mass culture, adult education, friendship and postmodernity as a result. Parental guidance suggested

Animating Learning: New Conceptions of the Role of the Person Who Works with Learners

This paper focuses on the role of the person who works with others to foster their learning and describes our struggle to make sense of this role. We identify a perspective termed animation, consider its features and discuss issues of context, identity and relationships between animators and learners

Invisible colleges revealed: Professional networks and personal interconnections amongst adult educators

This paper describes some findings from a study conducted in Australia to investigate professional networks (or invisible colleges) and personal interconnections amongst university-based adult educators. The importance of such networks in personal career terms and in the development of professional cultures is analysed. The significance of conferences, e-mail and \u27opinion leaders\u27 in the formation and maintenance of invisible colleges is discussed and power relations and patterns of influence are examined