1st Edition

Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse

Edited By Kathryn Ecclestone, Gert Biesta, Martin Hughes Copyright 2010
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Like many ideas that inform policy, practice and research, ‘transition’ has many meanings. Children make a transition to adulthood, pupils move from primary to secondary school, and there is then a movement from school to work, training or further education. Transitions can lead to profound and positive change and be an impetus for new learning for some individuals and be unsettling, difficult... Read more

List of tables and figures  List of contributors Foreword by John Field  Acknowledgements  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  Index

 

Biography

Kathryn Ecclestone is Professor of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Gert Biesta is Professor of Education at the Stirling Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK.

Martin Hughes is Professor of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.