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Making the Best of Life. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 360
This book explores how one group of aged women spoke
of themselves as learners across their life span. The
nine women who made up the group were born in the
first quarter of the twentieth century, had generally
limited formal education and spent most of their
lives in Australia. In their life times they
experienced world war, economic depression and family
crisis as well as periods of apparent stability and
peace, and across these eras they have been exposed
to a range of discourses that impacted on their
understanding of themselves as women and as learners.
Their stories show us how this group drew on the
discourses available to them in an enabling and
empowering way in a time when women were typically
seen as ‘just a wife and mother’. By showing these
personal narratives as socially shared, dialectically
created, culturally embedded and personally mediated,
our understandings of learning and development are
enriched. These women’s stories make visible the
places, spaces and processes of life-long and
life-wide learning.
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