%0 Journal Article
%T Riding the lines of flight
%A Robin Usher
%J European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults
%D 2010
%I 
%X Thinking about the future of educational research requires a conceptual resource that is itself both imaginative and multiple and at the same time articulates a world with those self-same characteristics. This is provided by the work of Deleuze and Guattari. Discussion of the future of research is located in a context of lifelong learning in the contemporary moment of ubiquitous electronic communication. I argue that the research process, contrary to the model of science, can be better understood as rhizomatic rather than arborescent and powered by desire rather than objectivity. Lifelong learning is a rhizome and requires a rhizomatic approach and sensibility on the part of the researcher. The hyper-connectivity of the Internet reinforces this development influencing the way research is carried out and the way its knowledge outcomes are distributed and used ¨C a research without hierarchy and authority.
%K Deleuze and Guattari
%K lines of flight
%K lifelong learning
%K electronic communication
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0011