Using Biographical and Life History Approaches in the Study of Adult and Lifelong Learning: European Perspectives

The Editors: Linden West is Reader in Education in the Department of Educational Research at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and Co-Director of the Centre for International Studies of Diversity and Participation. He co-ordinates the Biographical and Life History Research Network of ESREA and is a member of the Society's Steering Committee. He is presently working on families and their learning, using auto/biographical perspectives. He is also a qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
Peter Alheit, Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Ph.D. in Sociology, is currently Professor of General Education at Göttingen University, Germany and one of the initiators of biographical research in German sociology and education as well as co-founder of the ESREA Life History and Biography Research Network.
Anders Siig Andersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. He teaches in The Graduate School in Lifelong Learning. His main research interests are the interplay between the work place as a learning environment and learning in life history, educational reforms in adult education and qualitative methodology.
Barbara Merrill is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests are access and experiences of adult students; gender, class and adult education; learning careers and identities; citizenship and community-based learning and biographical methods. She co-ordinates the ESREA Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network and is a member of the ESREA Steering Committee.