Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers, Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World.

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Barbara Merrill , Andrea Galimberti , Adrianna Nizinska and José González-Monteagudo -- Contents / Barbara Merrill , Andrea Galimberti , Adrianna Nizinska and José González-Monteagudo -- Learning Careers and Transformative Learning / Ted Fleming -- Continuity and Discontinuity in Formal Education / Barbara Merrill , Andrea Galimberti , Adrianna Nizinska and José González-Monteagudo -- Friendship, Discourse and Belonging in the Studio / Samantha Broadhead -- English Language Book Club and Transformative Learning / Ida Leal -- Participation and Persistence / Alyson E. King , Allyson Eamer and Nawal Ammar -- Continuity and Discontinuity in Social Institutions / Barbara Merrill , Andrea Galimberti , Adrianna Nizinska and José González-Monteagudo -- Education Interrupted / Shanti Irene Fernando and Alyson E. King -- Inmates in Higher Education in Italy and Spain / Giuseppe Pillera -- Continuity and Discontinuity Around the Job Market / Barbara Merrill , Andrea Galimberti , Adrianna Nizinska and José González-Monteagudo -- Continuity and Discontinuity Around Academia / Andrea Galimberti and Eva Ratti -- Stimulating Empowerment and Supporting Access to Learning for Formally Low-Qualified Adults / Monika Kastner -- Policies for Equality and Employability / Camilla Thunborg and Agnieszka Bron -- Learning Careers of Non-Traditional Students on Employability Skills / María A. Tenorio-Rodríguez , Teresa Padilla-Carmona and José González-Monteagudo -- Literacy Practices in Adult Learning Biographies / Ana Silva , Maria de Lourdes Dionísio and Juliana Cunha -- Continuity and Discontinuity in Professional Contexts / Barbara Merrill , Andrea Galimberti , Adrianna Nizinska and José González-Monteagudo -- Adults’ Learning and Career Temporalities in the Analysis of Professionalisation and Professional Identity Construction / Pascal Roquet -- 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 González-Monteagudo.

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 continuity and discontinuity of the learning careers and identities of adults in a range of adult education learning contexts in Europe and beyond. The focus is on non-traditional students and issues of inequality such as class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability and how inequalities may enable or constrain their learning careers and identities.