Agnieszka BronProfessor emerita
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Professor Dr. Agnieszka Bron holds the Chair of Education at the Stockholm University, Sweden. Between years 1998-2002 she was a Professor of Adult Education at the Ruhr-Universtität Bochum, Germany. She worked as an adjunct professor at the Department of Leadership and Management at the Swedish National Defence University College, Stockholm (2003-2008). She has an international experience in teaching and research, was visiting professor at SUNY Stony Brook USA (1981), at OISE in Toronto Canada
(1982), University of Warwick UK (1995) and UBC in Vancouver Canada (2006).
She has published extensively on biographical learning (ethnicity, gender, informal learning and work), and comparative studies (blue-collar workers' access to post-secondary education, and non-traditional students in Sweden).
Her research includes engagement in several European projects concerning mature students in HE. She was the editor of the Bochum Studies in International Adult Education with four volumes (2000-2003). She is a co-founder of the ESREA and member of the international advisory board for Studies in the Education of Adults, UK.
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Being in constant transition or recurrent formation
2019. Camilla Thunborg, Agnieszka Bron. Studies in the Education of Adults 59 (1), 36-54
ArtikelLäs mer om Being in constant transition or recurrent formationThe aim of this article is to examine non-traditional graduates’ life transitions before, during, and after higher education (HE) in Sweden. The article builds on a theory called biographical work, which is used for understanding non-traditional graduates’ identity formation and transformation. The article is based on the narratives of two non-traditional graduates who were selected from biographical interviews with nine non-traditional graduates, 2–5 years after graduation from HE. By exploring significant events, learning paths and the formation and transformation of identities in the two graduates’ lives, we identified two expressions of their ongoing life transitions: being in recurrent formation and being in constant transition. Being in recurrent formation means returning to well-known paths in life and learning reactively by reflecting on experiences, whereas being in constant transition means a constant focus on what is next in life and a constant commuting between reactive and proactive learning, i.e. by both reflecting on experiences and preparing oneself for the next move. In the article, we discuss what it means to be in transition as a non-traditional graduate. We conclude that the theory of biographical work helps to understand identity formation and transformation processes in periods of transition, and also how periods of transition occur as parts of biographical learning.
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Feeling like a fish in water or like a fish out of water? A female academic career and experience in Northern Europe
2018. Agnieszka Bron.
ArtikelLäs mer om Feeling like a fish in water or like a fish out of water? A female academic career and experience in Northern EuropeThe aim of this paper is to present an autobiographical account on the prospects and process of academic career in Nordic countries, and specifically in Sweden. The method used is biographical, or self-ethnographic, dealing with life transitions including struggles and experiences when making the career. The point of departure is the final step in the academic career, i.e. Professorship, and reconstruction of the life events backwards, both as diachronic, a moment in time, as well as synchronic, over time dimensions. This includes research initiation, PhD writing, Postdoc experience, habilitation, and struggling to get a position of a senior lecturer and finally a professor. Involvement in various projects and international networking are presented. Biographical work and learning are used to understand how a woman researcher is navigating in a difficult male dominated terrain, including both negative and positive experiences.
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Policies for Equality and Employability
2018. Camilla Thunborg, Agnieszka Bron. Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers, 125-131
KapitelLäs mer om Policies for Equality and EmployabilityThe chapter is concerned with European policies for employability of graduate students from higher education to the labour market and a Swedish higher education system which has traditionally invluded widening access students. The chapter highlight issues of inequality relating to employability particularly in relation to working class an minority ethynic students. The study indicates that in relation to employability non-traditional students experience greater challenges than traditional students in the labour market resulting in a segregated labour market.
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