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    Lessons from Doctoral Studies

    Theoretical Perspectives on Learning and Teaching showcases the ways in which theories, from education and beyond, have been used by researchers who have recently completed their doctoral studies in education. The studies are contextualised across different UK education sectors from primary education to higher education.Engaging with theory is one of the key criteria for assessing doctoral studies ... Read more

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  • Forty Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume I

    Reflections on a Changing Field

    Over the last forty years, the International Journal of Lifelong Education has become a global leader in the field of research on adult education and lifelong learning. Drawing extensively on articles published in the journal, scholars from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australasia and Europe reflect in two volumes on how the field has evolved over four decades, and on the strengths and ... Read more

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  • Forty Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume II

    Insights on Published Research

    Over the last forty years, the International Journal of Lifelong Education has become a global leader in the field of research on adult education and lifelong learning. Drawing extensively on articles published in the journal, scholars from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australasia and Europe reflect in two volumes on how the field has evolved over four decades, and on the strengths and ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on Educational Policies and Professional Identities

    Lessons from Doctoral Studies

    This edited volume is the first to exclusively feature the work of doctoral graduates themselves. Critical Perspectives on Educational Policies and Professional Identities offers an important example of doctoral study within the field of education policy, emphasising the impact and transferability of findings across a range of educational sectors.The collection features the cutting-edge work of 14 ... Read more

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  • The Degree Generation

    The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives

    What are the challenges for the current generation of graduate millennials? The role of universities and the changing nature of the graduate labour market are constantly in the news, but less is known about the experiences of those going through it.This book traces the transition to the graduate labour market of a cohort of middle-class and working-class young people who were tracked through seven ... Read more

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  • Selling Our Youth

    Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times

    Series series Great Debates in Higher Education
    Selling Our Youth explores how the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage. It shows how class and gender combine to influence these young adults’ opportunities and choices, in an era when this generation has been characterized as the first likely to end up worse off economically than their parents ... Read more

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  • Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility

    The Degree Generation

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two universities in the UK through from their first year of study for the following three years, when most of them were about to enter the labour ... Read more

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  • The Learning Adult

    Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis

    Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This book explores the breadth and significance of his work. Sixteen chapters by leading international scholars explain and engage critically with his theorisation of learning, and with his extensive writings on the sociology, politics, ethics and history of adult education, and on ... Read more

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  • Higher Education and Social Inequalities

    University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes

    Series series Sociological Futures
    A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and as a way of reproducing social advantage for the better off. With the number of young people from the very highest socio-economic groups entering university in the UK having effectively been at saturation point for several decades, the expansion witnessed in ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning

    Series series Education (R0)
    This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world.Drawing on the multiple heritages that underpin research on education and learning in adulthood, this ... Read more

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  • Being Maasai

    Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa

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    Series series Eastern African Studies
    Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people have “become” something else. And what it means to be Maasai has changed radically over the past several centuries and is ... Read more

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