A short one to celebrate having an article included in the International Journal of Lifelong Education.
My article has been included in the first 2025 issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education! This is a journal I specifically wanted to write for, as I read a heck of a lot of it and really appreciate the work it publishes.
My article, Narrative value theory: an educational biography as an iterative theory-of-self, is a fairly introspective autoethnographic piece about my own self-sensemaking through my masters. On rereading, the intro is fairly dense and inaccessibly academic, but it does start to get more readable after that. Here’s a snippet:
“Stories are how we make sense. We use them all the time to explain things to ourselves, to characterise people we know, to imbue life events with meaning, to find humour in the challenges. By storying life, we become authors of it, and of our own identities. We can manage and massage it into something that helps us move through it…”
Other than just getting into IJLEd, I wanted to start making the case for narratives as theories of value/s.
If you don’t have free access through an academic library and you’d like to read it, just contact me and I’ll send you an eprint.
The Mind File 
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