Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse

ISBN 10: 0415481732 / ISBN 13: 9780415481731

Published by Routledge, 2009

About this Item

'Transition' has numerous everyday and conceptual meanings yet, while certain transitions are unsettling and difficult for some people, risk, challenge and even difficulty might also be important factors in successful transitions for others. This title evaluates insights about educational, life and work transitions from various fields of research. Editor(s): Ecclestone, Kathryn; Biesta, Professor Gert; Hughes, Martin. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black & white tables, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JNP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498. . 2009. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415481732
• ISBN 13: 9780415481731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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 and unproductive for others. Transitions have become a key concern for policy makers and the subject of numerous policy changes over the past ten years. They are also of interest to researchers and professionals working with different groups.

Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse examines transitions across a range of education, life and work settings. It explores the claim that successful transitions are essential for educational inclusion, social achievement, and economic prosperity and that individuals and institutions need to manage them more effectively.

Aimed primarily at academic researchers and students at all levels of study across a range of disciplines, including education, careers studies, sociology, feminist and cultural studies, this book is the first systematic attempt to bring together and evaluate insights about educational, life and work transitions from a range of different fields of research. Contributions include:

• The transition between home and school
• The effects of gender, class and age
• Transitions to further and higher education
• Transitions for students with disabilities
• Transitions into the workplace
• Learning within the workplace
• Approaches to managing transitions

About the Author

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.