Just back from Oslo working on methodologies to research learning lives and identity teasing out the  complications involved at both practical and theoretical levels trying to address the challenges we have set ourselves in the Learning Lives project, to log and describe the learning of around 60 young participants from 3 age cohorts ‘horizontally’ across different learning contexts thus allowing us to build up a picture of a learning life over a period of time. However, this challenge begs the deeper question about how we can identify and understand the role of different kinds of identity work within the process of learning itself.

I am working on an article about this and also preparing for a Methods seminar to be held in San Diego as part of this project in April 2010. More on this to follow as it unfolds