Publication details
Learning from precarious trajectories : portraits of young adults in four European countries
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Individuals constantly adapt and change their behaviours when in contact with new situations, thus learn throughout their lives. We argue that the relevance of this diffuse and omnipresent learning throughout life has been overshadowed by the dominant political and economic understanding of lifelong learning (Hallqvist et al., 2012). Biography becomes, then, a field of learning, where individuals reflect, organize and interpret their experiences in order to create individual coherence and guiding principles that underpin their actions (Biesta & Tedder, 2008). This can allow them to keep control over their personal agency and orientate their trajectories. In this chapter, we analyse biographical narratives of individuals who have had a precarious start to adult life so as to understand how learning processes take place in fragmented trajectories and how these learning processes can influence individual agency. |