Generative Knowing Doesn’t Leave Anything Behind: An Interview With Aliki Nicolaides

Abstract

This article features an interview between Dr. Aliki Nicolaides, Professor of Adult Learning, Leadership, and Adult Development at the University of Georgia, and a group of her current and former graduate students whose scholarly works draw on Nicolaides’ generative knowing theory in various ways. After co-interviewers gathered to discuss Nicolaides’ first book, Generative Knowing: Principles, Methods, and Dispositions of an Emerging Adult Learning Theory, and its implications for their work, they interviewed her about how this book and generative knowing theory came into being. The interview also explores the wide implications of this emerging theory for adult learning research and practice.