{"id":820,"date":"2020-02-03T10:27:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.doingtransitions.org\/?page_id=820"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:35:50","slug":"elisa-thevenot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/doingtransitions.org\/en\/team\/elisa-thevenot","title":{"rendered":"Elisa Thevenot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Eberhard Karls Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Institute of Education\nGRK Doing Transitions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M\u00fcnzgasse 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

72070 T\u00fcbingen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

elisa.thevenot(at)graduiertenkolleg.uni-tuebingen.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n

+49 (0)176 99792499<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CV Elisa Thevenot<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Elisa Thevenot is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Education, University of T\u00fcbingen. Since September 2025 she is postdoc fellow of the Margarete-von-Wrangell Programme and conducting a research project \u201c<\/em>Doing Youth by Making (Commons) Space\u201d<\/em> under the supervision of Jun.-Prof. Ya\u011fmur Mengilli. The project investigates youth cultural practices and informal learning processes in socio-ecological experimental settings also known as commons spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2020 to 2024, she was a research associate at the Institute of Education at the University of T\u00fcbingen and a fellow of the second cohort of the DFG Research Training Group \u201cDoing Transitions\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Topic Working Out Sustainability in Transition<\/strong> \u2013 Empirical reconstruction of work life trajectories within the sustainability context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do individuals make sense of sustainability transitions through work? How through biographical narratives are sustainability transitions related to life courses, embedded in personal stories and used to explain life course transitions? Exploring the concept of sustainability from a subject level perspective opens up many questions about: subjectivation processes, learning processes and micro social practices in the context of rapid social change related to the sustainability context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this qualitative research project, biographical work-life narratives were conducted with individuals contemplating a reorientation of their professional activities in accordance with their understanding of sustainability transitions. The analysis using a Documentary Method approach consisted in reconstructing implicit meaning given to career transition experiences and how it informs contemporary approaches to doing sustainability through work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The findings highlight the importance of personal narratives in shaping sustainability transitions and underscore the biographical learning processes embedded in contemporary work transitions. The research contributes to the development of a new field at the intersection of adult education and sustainability transitions, focusing on individual meaning-making and coping strategies in response to sustainability challenges \u2013 offering a complementary perspective to the established emphasis on education for sustainable development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thevenot, E. (2025). Learning from Rhythms: Navigating Personal Life Transitions at the Intersection of Work and Sustainability. In M. Bernhard, S. Billett, C. Hof, K. Kraus, V. J. Marsick, & P. H. Sawchuk (Eds.), Adult Education in Changing Times: Learning at the Nexus of Life, Work, and Transitions. Routledge. (forthcoming)
Thevenot, E. (2025). Biographical learning in the context of sustainability transitions: Conceptual reflections and Methodological insights. Studies in Adult Education and Learning. (forthcoming)
Schmeiduch, L., & Thevenot, E. (2025). Lifelong learning in sustainability-led initiatives: Exploring their learning potential along the reworked four pillars of education. International Review of Education \u2013 Journal of Lifelong Learning. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11159-024-10122-
Thevenot, E., & Hof, C. (2024). Den Widerspr\u00fcchen einen Sinn geben: Biografisches Lernen berufst\u00e4tiger Erwachsener im Kontext der Anforderung von Nachhaltigkeit. [Meaning-Making Amid Contradictions: Biographical Learning of Working Adults in the Context of Sustainability Imperatives] Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Weiterbildungsforschung, 47(3), 533-549. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s40955-024-00295-9
Thevenot, E. (2022). Quand le d\u00e9veloppement durable devient un projet professionnel : reconstruction des pratiques d\u2019acteurs abordant la transition \u00e9cologique par le travail [When Sustainable Development Becomes a Professional Project: Reconstructing the Practices of Actors Approaching Ecological Transition Through Work]., Le Monde du travail face aux d\u00e9fis de la transition \u00e9cologique, Chroniques du Travail, 12, 175-197.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (LATEST)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

09\/2025 \u2013 \u201cUsing rhythmanalysis to understand the temporal disharmony of environmental transitions issues faced by adult learners\u201d presentation for the Symposium Temporalities in dialogue: a stake for education in environmental transitions, in ESREA Triennial Conference, Prague.
03\/2024 \u201cLife Course and Transitions\u201d in the ESREA STREAM Network research Symposium \u201cSpaces and Times of Transitions\u201d. Online. Recording: www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXAsOkeInX4OQdzWhOjoTcA
09\/2023 \u201cTime to combine work and sustainability: learning to accommodate rhythms.\u201d presentation for the event \u2018Adult Learning at the Nexus of Life Course, Work & Transitions\u2019, Goethe University Frankfurt (https:\/\/adult-learning.de\/)
08\/2023 \u201cWhen sustainability becomes something professional: Diverse ways of learning between Work & Sustainable Development\u201d in symposium \u2018Understanding Transitions to and Through Working Life: Concepts, Methods and Procedural Imperatives\u2019 at the ECER (European Conference on Educational Research) Glasgow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TEACHING (CURRENT)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WS 25\/26 \u2013 BA-Seminar: \u201eEnvironmental Justice from the perspective of Social Work\u201d. Institut f\u00fcr Erziehungswissenschaft, Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen.
WS 25\/26 \u2013 BA-Seminar: \u201eKindheit als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe \u2013 Institut f\u00fcr Erziehungswissenschaft, Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen.
WS 25\/26 \u2013 Blockseminar: \u201ePolykrise: ein neues Schlagwort und seine Bedeutung f\u00fcr die Nachhaltigkeit\u201d. Seminar. Studium Oecologicum Programme. University of T\u00fcbingen
SS 25 – BA-Blockseminar: \u201eNachhaltigkeit als Herausforderung professionellen erwachsenenp\u00e4dagogischen Handelns\u201d. Institut f\u00fcr Sozialp\u00e4dagogik und Erwachsenenbildung. Goethe University Frankfurt
SS 25 \u2013 BA-Blockseminar: \u201eHands-on qualitative Forschung: Selber ausprobieren und Verstehen\u201d. Institut f\u00fcr Sozialp\u00e4dagogik und Erwachsenenbildung. Goethe University Frankfurt
WS 24 – Lehrauftrag: \u201cWie lassen sich Schule und Nachhaltigkeit zusammendenken?\u201c Lehramt Studium (Teachers College). Blockseminar. Goethe University Frankfurt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NETWORKS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA)
Network: Spaces, Times, and the Rhythms of the Education of Adults and its Movements (S.T.R.E.A.M)
Association Francaise de Sociologie (AFS)
Working Group (active participation): RT22 Parcours de Vie et Dynamiques Sociales (monthly meetings)
Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE)
Working Group: Erwachsenenbildung
TepLab (Laboratory for Teaching Practices)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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