Liselott Aarsand
Background and activities
My research mainly takes a discourse analytical perspective and addresses the interactive work of adult learning and subjectification in everyday practices (e.g. education, family life, the media, popular culture). Recently I have investigated family life and parenting as lifelong learning practices, and I am currently working on the pedagogics of lifestyle change portrayed in popular culture. I am interested in methodological debates on qualitative research, for instance, the socially interactive aspects of ethnographies and interviews, analysis and reflexivity. I regularly conduct reviews for several international journals, and I am a member of the editorial advisory board for Pedagogy, Culture and Society.
Together with some colleagues I run the Discourse Seminar where researchers within various research fields come together to analyse interactional data:
https://www.ntnu.edu/ipl/sipp/discourse
I have initiated the research group Learning in Everyday Practices focusing on learning beyond formal education:
I am also part of a research group highlighting the role of dialogue in adult learning and counselling practices:
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) Challenging Spaces: Liminal Positions and Knowledge Relations in Dynamic Research Partnerships. International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP). vol. 3 (1).
- (2018) Framing and switches at the outset of qualitative research interviews. Qualitative Research.
- (2018) The joint production of confession in qualitative research interviews. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. vol. 11 (3).
- (2015) Balancing freedom and commitment - making higher education matter to working life. UNIPED. vol. 38 (1).
- (2014) Parental self-work: governing enactments in family life. European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults. vol. 5 (1).
- (2014) The knowledgeable parenting style: stance takings and subject positions in media encounters. International Journal of Lifelong Education. vol. 33 (5).
- (2011) Parents, expertise and identity work: the media conceptualised as a lifelong learning practice. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. vol. 19 (3).
- (2011) 'How to be good': media representations of parenting. Studies in the Education of Adults. vol. 43 (1).
Books
- (2012) Familjeliv och lärande. Studentlitteratur AB. 2012. ISBN 978-91-44-07809-0.
- (2011) Voksne, læring og kompetanse. Gyldendal Akademisk. 2011. ISBN 978-82-05-41680-2.
Part of book/report
- (2019) Doing Data Analysis – Collaboration, Creativity and Critique. Doing Educational Research — Overcoming Challenges In Practice.
- (2015) Confessional talk on parenting. Foucault and a Politics of Confession in Education.
- (2013) Föräldraidentiteter och (själv)disciplineringens dynamik. Lärandets Mångfald. Om vuxenpedagogik och folkbildning.
- (2012) Föräldraskapets noviser, erfarna och expertis. Familjeliv och lärande.
- (2012) Lärandepraktiker i familjen. Familjeliv och lärande.
- (2012) Med lärandeblick på familjers vardagsliv. Familjeliv och lärande.
- (2011) Foreldreskapets identitetsarbeid - om media som ressurs i voksnes læring. Voksne, læring og kompetanse.