Continuity and discontinuity in learning careers potentials for a learning space in a changing world

Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the new challenges and threats posed to adult education as a potential way out of the economic crisis and social change. It explores the role of adult education in relation to the continu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Merrill, Barbara (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill Sense 2018, [2018]
Series:Research on the education and learning of adults
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Continuity and discontinuity around academia : the "Find Your Doctor" project as a space for researching and facilitating learning careers / Andrea Galimberti and Eva Ratti
  • Stimulating empowerment and supporting access to learning for formally low-qualified adults : potentials of work-related competency assessment in social enterprises / Monika Kastner
  • Policies for equality and employability : consequences for non-traditional students in Sweden / Camilla Thunborg and Agnieszka Bron
  • Learning careers of non-traditional students on employability skills / Maria A. Tenorio-Rodriguez, Teresa Padilla-Carmona and Jose Gonzalez-Monteagudo
  • Literacy practices in adult learning biographies : possibilities and constraints / Ana Silva, Maria de Lourdes Dionisio and Juliana Cunha
  • Adults' learning and career temporalities in the analysis of professionalisation and professional identity construction / Pascal Roquet
  • Learning careers and transformative learning : challenges of learning and work in neoliberal spaces / Ted Fleming
  • Friendship, discourse and belonging in the studio : the experiences of 'non-traditional' students in design higher education / Samantha Broadhead
  • English language book club and transformative learning : developing critical consciousness in the English language classroom in a UK Further Education (FE) college and in a South African township / Ida Leal
  • Participation and persistence : an analysis of underserved students at UOIT / Alyson King, Allyson Eamer and Nawal Ammar
  • Education interrupted : learning careers of adults living with mental illness / Shanti Irene Fernando and Alyson E. King
  • Inmates in higher education in Italy and Spain : legal, cultural and technological issues in a complex network of continuity and discontinuity / Giuseppe Pillera
  • Ways of learning of adult educators in uncertain professional contexts / Catarina Paulos
  • No more superheroes ... only avatars? : survival role play in English post compulsory education / Carol A. Thompson and Peter J. Wolstencroft
  • Conclusions / Andrea Galimberti, Barbara Merrill, Adrianna Nizinska and Jose Gonzalez-Monteagudo
  • Includes bibliographical references