Life experiences and transitions of adult migrant learners through a biographical learning perspective.

• Authors: Barkoglou Georgia , Gravani Maria N.

Title variants

PL

Przemiany i doświadczenia życiowe uczących się dorosłych migrantów z perspektywy uczenia się biograficznego

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this paper is to explore adult migrants’ learning in light of their life experiences and transitions, drawing from the narratives of two migrant learners who attended ‘Odysseus’ solidarity school in Greece. The presented research harnesses the biographical learning theory and adopts a Bakhtinian, dialogical way of presenting the data under three themes: wars and identity struggles, religious beliefs, migration and language learning in the host country. The findings revealed that adult migrants’ life experiences and transitions constitute a learning process, which enhances transformative learning of ‘being’, through a process of ‘perspective and identity struggles’. It is also found that the accumulated experiences and transitions as well as adult migrant learners’ previous educational capital are in constant relation to the way they experience language learning in the programme.

PL

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zbadanie procesu uczenia się dorosłych migrantów w świetle ich życiowych doświadczeń i tranzycji, opierając się na narracji dwóch uczących się osób, które uczęszczały do szkoły solidarnościowej „Odysseus” w Grecji. W przedstawionych badaniach wykorzystano teorię uczenia się biograficznego, a także przyjęto bachtinowski, dialogiczny sposób prezentowania danych, w ramach trzech wątków: wojny i zmagania się z tożsamością, przekonań religijnych, migracji i nauki języka w kraju przyjmującym. Na podstawie wyników ustalono, że życiowe doświadczenia i tranzycje dorosłych migrantów stanowią proces uczenia się, który wzmacnia transformatywne uczenie się „bycia” poprzez proces „zmagań z perspektywą i tożsamością”. Stwierdzono również, że zgromadzone doświadczenia oraz tranzycje, a także wcześniejszy kapitał edukacyjny uczących się dorosłych migrantów, pozostają w stałym związku ze sposobem, w jaki doświadczają oni nauki języków w ramach programu.

Keywords

EN

adult migrant learners; biographical learning theory; life experiences and transitions; ’perspective struggles’; ‘identity struggles’; Bakhtinian dialogism

PL

uczący się dorośli migranci; teoria uczenia się biograficznego; życiowe doświadczenia; i tranzycje; „zmagania z perspektywą”; „zmagania z tożsamością”,; dialogiczność bachtinowska

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Zielonogórski. Oficyna Wydawnicza
• Journal: Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 21
• Pages: 125-139

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Barkoglou Georgia

• Open University of Cyprus

author

Gravani Maria N.

• Open University of Cyprus

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ISSN

2084-2740