The ‘Narratives, Context and Learning’ symposium took place on the 16 – 17 May 2011, hosted by Professors Ivor Goodson, David Stephens and Avril Loveless. Leading academics from Asia, Latin America, Northern Europe, Ireland and the UK participated.
‘Narratives, Context and Learning’ network symposium
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The main frame of reference for the conference was to discuss a series of papers that will come out under the theme of a book to be published by Sense Publishers called New Directions in Narrative Research. As a result the conference participants were invited to discuss their own work which is often of a cutting edge quality and in the light of their capacity, to develop new perspectives and directions for the burgeoning field of narrative research. The Centre at Brighton is developing a major focus of interest in narrative work with a particular emphasis on its relationship to pedagogy and learning. This invitational conference is the first of a series of annual international invitational conferences which will focus on new work using new narrative and life history methods. It is hoped that in due course an international network of researchers will coalesce around this annual conference and bring together new work and new scholarship around the theme of narrative research.
The next international symposium will be held in 2012 at the University of Brighton and this will coincide with the network’s forthcoming book published by Sense Publishers.