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Učenje u svakodnevnom životu: novi pristup istraživačkim metodama
Learning In Everyday Life: Towards A New Method Of Researching The Field

Author(s): Nives Ličen, Senka Hočevar Ciuha
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: Life story; narration; interpretation; research method; learning in everyday life

Summary/Abstract: The text focuses on certain theoretical and methodological issues of using the biographical method to research the learning of adults in everyday life. It presents the development of the biographical method in andragogy and the characteristics of its use in the research of learning. By studying various biographical studies, the authors establish that varied denominations of biographical methods were created, which they link to various professional environments and ways of researching. Some problems in collecting data, taking notes and interpreting narration as well as characteristics of the relationship between the researcher and narrator are presented. Since getting to know the selected phenomena takes place in a reciprocal relationship between the researcher and the narrator, non-verbal communication and pre-linguistic experience, bringing additional challenges to note taking and interpreting, are all important in addition to verbal communicationg.

  • Issue Year: 11/2012
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 55-66
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English