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Inviting learning

An exhibition of risk and enrichment in adult education practice

Peter Willis
ISBN 1 86201 129 X
March 2002
(Only available in hardback)

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cover of "Inviting Learning"

Inviting Learning tells of Willis's experiences in offering informal and formal learning opportunities whilst working with young adults in Melbourne, Aboriginal people in Australia's Outback, welfare workers in Central Australia and mature age university students in Adelaide. It is set out in seven 'installations' in an imaginary 'exhibition' containing stories of specific episodes in different settings and enriched with poetic reflections and analysis.

The text portrays, rather than explains or analyses, what it is actually like to engage in adult education in these different settings. This approach uses 'expressive phenomenology' as its methodology to gain vividness and clarity in presenting these lived experiences. There is considerable interest in what is called 'expressive' or 'arts-based' research. Inviting Learning is an interesting example of what it looks like and why such an approach can claim academic respectability.

Peter Willis is currently a senior lecturer in adult and vocational education at the University of South Australia. He is a prolific writer of texts on adult education in relation to community development, cultural awareness, workplace training and religious leadership.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Inviting Learning

Prologue

Part I

The Entrance Foyer

	Orientation
	The visitor's guide

Part II

The Main Gallery: Inviting Learning

	Reality at the Outpost Inn
	Ringplace teaching at the Kununurra Mass
	Trucking with the Miriwung
	Dead words and live politics
	Dusty journeys at IAD
	The flight of the pelican
	Starbursts and shocks at the Uni

Part III

The Gallery of Method

	Orientation
	Expressive method in qualitative research
	Phenomenology and the expressive method.

Part IV

The Exit Foyer

	Orientation
	Final Reflections

Epilogue

References

Index

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