Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse
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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
Tentang pengarang
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.
