We all pay lip service to the importance of lifelong learning, but what is it exactly and how does it come about? The connections between identity and learning are intriguing and complex, especially when it comes to adult learners. In this very thoughtfully organized collection, researchers present qualitative and narrative studies, along with personal narratives, to explore identity development in formal and informal learning environments. Contributions from varied cultural contexts, most with powerful and moving storiesto tell, provide insight into how identity, meaning-making, and adult learning and development intersect and influence each other. Psychologists, scholars and educators interested in identity development and meaning-making will find inspiration and fresh understanding in this innovative and enlightening series.""- Ruthellen Josselson, Author of Paths to Fulfillment: Women’s Search for Meaning and Identity""This innovative series on adult development is inspiring and substantive. We hear voices from the margins and stories of courage. We read identity-formation narratives by young adults and experienced professionals who share impressive capacities for transparency, vulnerability, and self-reflection. Many of the narratives are embedded in rigorous qualitative research that highlights diverse ways that identity is shaped through social positionality, lived experience, the quest for individuation, and willingness to encounter life as a dynamic learning process.""- Jared D. Kass, Lesley University, Author of A Person-Centered Approach to Psychospiritual Maturation: Mentoring Psychological Resilience and Inclusive Community in Higher Education

• Preface.Part I. Developmental Transitions And Life Experience.Chapter 1. Truly My Heart's Work: Rural Emerging Adults Constructing Meaningful Lives; Donna M. San Antonio.Chapter 2. Becoming a Mother: Caregiving Identity Development; Sarit Lesser.Chapter 3. I'm Not Done in Any Way: Identity Growth, Revision, and Lifelong Learning in Late Midlife Women; Diana Giglio and Sue L. Motulsky.Chapter 4. Growing up Hearing, Growing up Deaf; Marie A. Lynch.Chapter 5. Exploring Late Adulthood Identity: Views of Lifelong Learning in Two Groups of Older Adults; Jamie D. Stockton.Part II. Migration, Cultural Adjustment, And Language Learning.Chapter 6. Becoming Care Workers: We Are Not Only Domestic Workers; Daphna Arbell Kehila.Chapter 7. Becoming an Active Learner: Reconstructing Identity of North Korean Millennial Defectors in South Korea; Hyewon Park, JungHwan Kim, and Esther S. Prins.Chapter 8. Multifaceted Identities of an Immigrant Woman: An Educational Trajectory of Becoming; Bita H. Zakeri.Chapter 9. Interstitial Spaces: A Case Study of English Language Learning and South African Domestic Work; Anna Kaiper-Marquez.Part III. Learning And Identity In Work And Career Decision-making.Chapter 10. 80/20: Making Identities in Making Spaces; Eli Tucker-Raymond, Brian E. Gravel, and Ecco Pierce.Chapter 11. Under the Influence: The Familial Construction of Career Identity; Porscha Jackson.Chapter 12. When Self Comes to the Surface: Identity for Women in Career Transition; Sue L. Motulsky.About the Editors.About the Contributors.

We all pay lip service to the importance of lifelong learning, but what is it exactly and how does it come about? The connections between identity and learning are intriguing and complex, especially when it comes to adult learners. In this very thoughtfully organized collection, researchers present qualitative and narrative studies, along with personal narratives, to explore identity development in formal and informal learning environments. Contributions from varied cultural contexts, most with powerful and moving storiesto tell, provide insight into how identity, meaning-making, and adult learning and development intersect and influence each other. Psychologists, scholars and educators interested in identity development and meaning-making will find inspiration and fresh understanding in this innovative and enlightening series.""- Ruthellen Josselson, Author of Paths to Fulfillment: Women’s Search for Meaning and Identity""This innovative series on adult development is inspiring and substantive. We hear voices from the margins and stories of courage. We read identity-formation narratives by young adults and experienced professionals who share impressive capacities for transparency, vulnerability, and self-reflection. Many of the narratives are embedded in rigorous qualitative research that highlights diverse ways that identity is shaped through social positionality, lived experience, the quest for individuation, and willingness to encounter life as a dynamic learning process.""- Jared D. Kass, Lesley University, Author of A Person-Centered Approach to Psychospiritual Maturation: Mentoring Psychological Resilience and Inclusive Community in Higher Education

• Preface.Part I. Developmental Transitions And Life Experience.Chapter 1. Truly My Heart's Work: Rural Emerging Adults Constructing Meaningful Lives; Donna M. San Antonio.Chapter 2. Becoming a Mother: Caregiving Identity Development; Sarit Lesser.Chapter 3. I'm Not Done in Any Way: Identity Growth, Revision, and Lifelong Learning in Late Midlife Women; Diana Giglio and Sue L. Motulsky.Chapter 4. Growing up Hearing, Growing up Deaf; Marie A. Lynch.Chapter 5. Exploring Late Adulthood Identity: Views of Lifelong Learning in Two Groups of Older Adults; Jamie D. Stockton.Part II. Migration, Cultural Adjustment, And Language Learning.Chapter 6. Becoming Care Workers: We Are Not Only Domestic Workers; Daphna Arbell Kehila.Chapter 7. Becoming an Active Learner: Reconstructing Identity of North Korean Millennial Defectors in South Korea; Hyewon Park, JungHwan Kim, and Esther S. Prins.Chapter 8. Multifaceted Identities of an Immigrant Woman: An Educational Trajectory of Becoming; Bita H. Zakeri.Chapter 9. Interstitial Spaces: A Case Study of English Language Learning and South African Domestic Work; Anna Kaiper-Marquez.Part III. Learning And Identity In Work And Career Decision-making.Chapter 10. 80/20: Making Identities in Making Spaces; Eli Tucker-Raymond, Brian E. Gravel, and Ecco Pierce.Chapter 11. Under the Influence: The Familial Construction of Career Identity; Porscha Jackson.Chapter 12. When Self Comes to the Surface: Identity for Women in Career Transition; Sue L. Motulsky.About the Editors.About the Contributors.