In this interview, Prof. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff sits down with Dr. Michel Alhadeff-Jones to explore the relationship between time and power in adult education, through the lens of rhythm theory.

The conversation explores the role of rhythms in the ways adults experience time, power and learning throughout their lives. Revisiting experiences such as burnout and dropouts, Michel introduces concepts he has been working on, such as temporal alienation, arrhythmia and rhythmic intelligence. He also explains why temporal literacy and temporal imagination are important to help adults name, interpret and renegotiate the temporal tensions that shape their lives. He also suggests that adult educators may act as “temporal mediators” to support learners' efforts to synchronize the heterogeneous rhythms that compose their life, nurture the rhythms of transformation, and learn from diverse cultures of time in order to foster more balanced and emancipatory rhythms of living and learning.

The transcri...

The Sunkhronos Institute is proud to support the upcoming ESREA STREAM Network 2024 Research Symposium Series. This series of webinars will focus on the theme of transitions.

In this first STREAM Network webinars series, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Fadia Dakka and Sabine Schmidt-Lauff, invite scholars from a broad range of disciplines to address transitional phenomena by mobilizing the conceptual nuance and richness encapsulated in related notions, such as “liminality”, "life course", “transgression”, "professional development", “virtualization”, “hybridity” and “dissipation”. These, in turn, will serve as entry points to articulate, debate and question how individuals and communities experience transitions. The seminars will be guided by (but not limited to) questions such as:

• How do we experience transitions? How do we learn from them?
• How do we theorize transitional processes? How do we anticipate them?
• How can we better navigate changes through calibration?
• How do we conceive the...