Parallel Sessions
Friday 3 March 2006, 09:30–12:30
Social & Political Spaces - Transitions & Transformations
Chair: Riki Van Boeschoten
- Egger Rudolf, Austria: That's history. So what? Stories and structures in the social and political transformation process in the life-courses of Kosovo people
- Alexander Prigarin, Ukraine, & Eleni Samaritaki, Greece: People and ceremonies in deportation: The Life-Story and History of a community of Thracian Greeks of Crimea
- Eleni Samaritaki, Greece: Audio-Visual
- Margarita Karamihova, Bulgaria: Myths of Nation-building after Socialism: How one local folk song leads national ideology, while simultaneously creating a new nation-building strategy
- Mohammed Boudoudou, Morocco & Myriam Cherti, UK: Migration Trajectories, Life Histories and the Challenges of Creating a Collective Memory: The Case of Moroccan Migrants in London
Education & Learning
Chair: Jonathan Hughes
- Ida Juul, Denmark: Using biographical narratives as a source in the study of educational history in the period from 1945-2005 in Denmark
- Jonathan Hughes, UK: Learning Journeys Research Project
- Peter Ryley, UK: "By Living We Learn". The radical educational philosophy of Patrick Geddes: A theoretical approach for Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century?
- Sidiropoulou, T, Shiza, M., Sidiropoulou, Greece: Evaluation of Pedagogic Practices Through The Narration Of The Lives Of Future Educators
- Scherto Gill, UK: Understanding school community – Initial insights from the New School
- Ewa Kurantowicz, Rozalia Ligus, Adrianna Nizinska, Poland: The Polish context of PRILHE project research
Community & Exclusion
Chair: Lily Varidaki - Levine
- Anastasia Christou, UK: (De)constructing the (de)humanizing nation: narratives of home and exile in the diaspora
- Ivor Goodson & Norma Adair, UK: In Search of "Home": Becoming and Belonging
- Lily Varidaki-Levine, Denmark: Life History and Experience, Learning and Profession: The case of Greek female social workers employed in the private sector
- Evanthia Tsaliki, UK: Aspects of Roma pupils' education: processes and experiences from a primary school
- Nicola Magnusson, Sweden: Experiences of Migration and Democracy - examined using a biographical approach
Identities & Selves
Chair: Tania Vosniadou
- Dionisis Mentzeniotis, Greece: Dialogue in Community: From Heraclitus' "commonness of Logos" to Descartes' "subject" as a "passage technique"
- Tania Vosniadou, Greece: Intergenerational research with life histories: a case study
- Anna Nomikou, UK: Remembering and Revealing the Past: Memory, Identity and Narrative in oral testimonies
- Vasiliki Kravva, Greece: Deepening the understanding of cultural distinctiveness and belonging through life-story telling
- Irene Malcolm, UK: Life history research as emotional labour: power, class and gender in transitional spaces
Learning & Professional Identity
Chair: Rob Evans
- Hazel Bryan, UK: A Room of One's Own: negotiating transitional spaces within the new academy
- Sue Webb & Simon Warren, UK: Researching post compulsory education: beyond phenomenology?
- Kristiina Krabi, Estonia: University teacher's professional identity construction as learning
- Rob Evans, Germany: Moving through change – the voices of East German HE professionals in transition and their biographical work
Research Methodology
Chair: Rena Molho
- Linden West, UK: Challenging auto/biographies in the transitional spaces of research
- Vasileios Menoutis, Greece: Group-Analytic Paideia and Idioprosopia
- Rena Molho, Greece: Digital autobiographical biographies: Centropa's method in reconstructing and sharing the History and Culture of annihilated Jewish Communities
- Arianna Karacosta, Greece: Reflexivity and transformation in the biographical approach
- Katerina Pazioni-Kalli, UK: "Looking through her eyes". Life History/Biography as a transitional space for exploring women's learning
Artistic Space & Processes
Chair: Philippos Oraiopoulos
- Adriana Mica, Poland: The Chronicle of Matei and of the Treasured Town of Cluj
- Iordanis Stilidis, Greece: How much information can we suffer?
- Anna Spanopoulou, Greece: Oral Narration in Visual Arts: Examples at the Municipal Art gallery of Larissa
- Maria Dalamitrou, Greece: The Idea of Transitional Space and Reality in Psychoanalysis and Socialism: Chekhov's ‘The Cherry Orchard'
- Angeliki Avgitidou, Greece: Between autopsy and autoptes: on the relationship of diary and art practice
- Philippos Oraiopoulos, Greece: Life histories and City Architecture
