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Freeman, Mark – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
This article -- the second part of a two-part contribution -- offers a number of suggested directions for the historiography of adult education in Britain. It identifies opportunities to address longstanding areas of neglect that have been overshadowed by a focus on the "Great Tradition" of adult education. Although a key theme of recent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational History, Historiography
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Bellos, David – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2004
Romain Gary was born in Lithuania, moved to France at age 14, and spent much of his adult life in Britain and America. He represents an unusually extreme case of multiple identity in a transnational context. Despite this, Gary's literary oeuvre is not much concerned with the problem of identity. It exhibits instead a tension between protest at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Issues, Authors, Novels
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Woods, Peter – British Educational Research Journal, 1993
Describes the significance of life histories, or autobiographies, in teacher education and professional development. Reports on the case study of a British teacher who realized that his educational philosophy was rooted in childhood experiences divided between formal schooling and a natural world of real learning. (CFR)
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Family History