European Studies in Lifelong Learning and Adult Learning Research – serie

Contents: Joanna Ostrouch/Edmée Ollagnier: Introduction: claiming space - making waves – Edmée Ollagnier: Gender, learning, recognition – Agnieszka Zembrzuska: Gender aspects of career counselling in Poland: a Foucauldian perspective – Elżbieta Wołodźko: Reflectivity and emancipation in feminist action research – Linden West: Gendered space: men, families and learning – Joanna Ostrouch: Researching with gender sensitiveness: two cases – Monika Grochalska: Qualitative methods in social mobility research – Tuula Heiskanen: Approaching gender issues with action research: collaboration and creation of learning spaces – Ingrid de Saint-Georges: «She will never be a mason»: interacting about gender and negotiating a woman’s place in adult training and education – Agnieszka Bron: Biographical methodology in gender studies and adult learning – Edyta Łyszkowska: Polish women’s mimetic behaviour under TV influence – Borislav Tchalovski: School context and stereotypes reproduction: the role of the teacher – Sheila Gaynard: Choices and transitions in lifelong learning and life course development: one woman’s story – Anna Vidali: Women and knowledge: a study of teachers in early childhood education.

This book highlights the issues of access, learning careers and identities in a diverse range of educational settings with diverse groups of adult students across Europe. Much of the work in this book illuminates these issues through the voices of adult students and adult educators and illustrates the rich variety of practice and context of adult education in Europe. It draws on the work of scholars from across Europe within the framework of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA). The chapters include examples and discussions of access, learning careers and identity in the context of higher and further education, the workplace, and prisons. The reader will see how structure and agency interplays and interacts in developing, or not, the learning careers and identities of adult students and adult educators. The book will appeal to researchers and educators in adult education, other professionals in associated fields and policy makers.