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RELA, European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of AdultsThe field of research on the education and learning of adults has changed dramatically over the last decades. Some have analysed these changes through various forms of what we characterise here as ‘cartographies’. Cartographies are attempts to map out particular conditions, developments or trends. In the field of adult education and learning such mapping has been done in quantitative ways through bibliometric analyses, but also through qualitative and critical approaches. These are important in reflexive engagement, understanding what is going on in the field, and regarding some of the forces that shape and dominate it.Bibliometric analysis, for example, considers the field as it is represented through journal publications. This has led to a number of observations regarding the research approaches that dominate; a historical emphasis on Anglophone authors in the publication of research and describing the field (see e.g. Larsson, 2010) and specific gendered and age related biases. If the publication of research in the field can be taken as an indicator of the amount of research carried out, it appears through such analysis that quantitative research has reduced over the years and qualitative increased (cf. Taylor, 2001; Fejes &#38; Nylander, 2013). Critical approaches - socio-cultural perspectives, critical pedagogy, and post-structural theorisations - currently dominate (cf. Fejes &#38; Nicoll, 2013). Such observations have, we feel, crucially supported analytic discussions over the reasons for and mechanisms shaping the field as socio-cultural practice. (...)Lire la suite : Cartography of research on the education and learning of adultsDeadline:  June 15, 2014