Learning to Change?

Contents: Barbara Merrill: Introduction: Moving Beyond Access to Learning Careers and Identity - John Field: Learning Transitions in the Adult Life Course: agency, identity and social capital - Michael Tedder/Gert Biesta: What does it take to learn from one's life? Exploring opportunities for biographical learning in the lifecourse - Simon Warren/Sue Webb: Accounting for structure in agency: recursive methodology, social narratives and habitus - Paula Guimarães/Amélia Vitória Sancho: Fragments of Adult Educators' Lives: Reflecting on Informal Learning in the Workplace - Rob Evans: Talking of learning ... Auto/biographical narratives of learning and computer-assisted analysis of the language of professional discourse(s) in interviews - Patricia A Gouthro: Understanding Women's Learning Trajectories: Examining Life Histories of Women Learners in Canada - Tamsin Hinton-Smith: Lone parents as HE students: A qualitative email study - Rennie Johnston/Barbara Merrill: Developing Learning Identities for Working Class Adult Students in Higher Education -Nalita James/Bethia McNeil: The Impact of Drama on Young Offenders' Learning Identities and Careers - Peter Alheit: The symbolic power of knowledge. Exclusion mechanisms of the 'university habitus' in the German HE system - Ewa Kurantowicz/Adrianna Nizinska: Practicing critical, reflexive and autonomous learning among students of higher education. A Polish case study - Ana Maria Ramalho Correia/Dulce Magalhães de Sá/Ana Cristina Costa/Anabela Sarmento: Building a Knowledge and Learning Society in Portugal - Adult Students in Technological Schools and Higher Education Institutions - Jan Thorhauge Frederiksen: Grading and Knowledge - a Matrix of Student Identities.

The Editor: Barbara Merrill is a reader in Lifelong learning in the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick (UK). Her research interests are access and experiences of adult students, gender, class and adult education, learning careers and identities, citizenship and community learning and biographical methods. She co-ordinates the ESREA Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network and is a member of the ESREA Steering Committee.