Transitions and learning through the lifecourse / edited by Kathryn Ecclestone, Gert Biesta and Martin Hughes.

Other author Ecclestone, Kathryn.
Other author Biesta, Gert.
Other author Hughes, Martin, 1949 May 15-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxxiv, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Contents 1. Transitions in the lifecourse: the role of identity, agency and structure / Kathryn Ecclestone, Gert Biesta and Martin Hughes -- 2. The daily transition between home and school / Martin Hughes, Pamela Greenhough, Wan Ching Yee and Jane Andrews -- 3. Transgression for transition? White urban middle class families making and managing 'against the grain' school choices / David James and Phoebe Beedell -- 4. Reading and writing the self as a college student: fluidity and ambivalence across contexts / Candice Satchwell and Roz Ivanic -- 5. Managing transitions in skills for life / Mary Hamilton -- 6. The transition from vocational education and training to higher education: a successful pathway? / Michael Hoelscher, Geoff Hayward, Hubert Ertl and Harriet Dunbar-Goddet -- 7. Disabled students and transitions in higher education / Elisabet Weedon and Sheila Riddell -- 8. Rethinking 'failed transitions' to higher education / Jocey Quinn -- 9. Time in learning transitions through the lifecourse: a feminist perspective / Helen Colley -- 10. Working as belonging: the management of personal and collective identities / Alan Felstead, Dan Bishop, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson, Lorna Unwin and Kostantinos Kakavelakis -- 11. Adults learning in and through the workplace / Karen Evans and Edmund Waite -- 12. Older workers' transitions in work-related learning, careers and identities / Jenny Bimrose and Alan Brown -- 13. Managing and supporting the vulnerable self / Kathryn Ecclestone.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2009016177
ISBN9780415481731 (hardback)
ISBN0415481732 (hardback)
ISBN9780415481748 (pbk.)
ISBN0415481740 (pbk.)
ISBN9780203867617 (ebook)
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