Table of Contents

1. Troubling transitions: learning and the changing life course PART I: THEMES, METHODS AND CONCEPTS 2. Lost and found in transition: the implications of ‘identity’, ‘agency’ and ‘structure’ for educational goals and practices 3. A View of Canadian Lifelong-Learning Policy Culture through a Critical Lens 4. Time, Individual Learning Careers, and Lifelong Learning 5. Who Is The ‘Responsible Learner’? Viewing learning careers through social narratives and recursive methodology 6. Older men’s lifelong learning: common threads/sheds 7. Biography, Transition and Learning in the Lifecourse: The role of narrative PART II: CHANGING PLACES OF LEARNING 8. Approaches to Lifelong Learning: American Community Colleges and age inclusiveness 9. Two conceptual models for facilitating learners’ transitions to new post-school learning contexts 10. Worlds of difference: ‘dual sector’ institutions and higher education transitions 11. Improving Transfer from Vocational to Higher Education: International lessons 12. Imagined transitions: social and organisational influences on the student life-cycle 13. Accumulating knowledge in researching technology enhanced learning: going with the flows PART III: TRANSITIONS THROUGH WORKING LIFE 14. Working out work: integrated development practices in organisations 15. "Drifting", "desperate" or just "diverse"? Researching young people in jobs without training 16. The limits of competency-based training and the implications for work 17. "Well, if the government won’t do it, we bloody well will!" Third Age Activism and Participatory Action Learning 18. Researching Transitions: trends and future prospects

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University of Stirling, UK Glasgow Caledonian University, UK