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Returning to university as an older student is a paradoxical experience: my 23 years out of university presumed knowledge of experience, and yet it was this very knowledge that initially inhibited my theorising anew the experience that produced this knowledge.

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Heraud, R. (2013). Unaware That I was Walking Backwards. In: Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.C., Peters, M.A. (eds) Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-317-1_6

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