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Direct linkMiddleton, Sue – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
The academic study of Education (as a social, historical, and theoretical phenomenon) is complicated by the fact of our immersion in it. This paper combines Said's idea of "contrapuntal reading" with Bourdieu's notion of reflexivity to explore what happens when students on an Education course directly confront the fact of their everyday…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Biographies, Foreign Countries
Swindells, Julia, Ed. – 1995
This collection explores the range of uses of autobiography from the 19th century to the present and from Africa, the United States, Middle East, France, New Zealand, and Britain. The chapters draw on a number of approaches, including historical and literary methods. They are frequently about the retrieval and reclamation of previously hidden or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
