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In the context of work on young people’s experiences in the field of youth and educational studies, this chapter discusses issues of learning, power, and involvement with empirical examples from a collective memory work project on students’ memories of belonging in higher education. While theoretical discussions, analysis of written memories, and guidelines for such projects have been widely covered, very little has been written about the dynamics of the process of involving participants in a research group or collective. Furthermore, little has been written about how the interpretation of memories relates to participants’ learning processes during the associated workshops. Consequently, this chapter contributes understandings of the learning processes and power dynamics that took place in our effort to establish a research collective with higher education students and in the collective work of finding and analysing a shared social experience. Finally, the chapter discusses the importance of understanding involvement as a complex but important part of research, where participants are continuously encouraged to openly explore their different motivations for participation. |
