This book contributes to the setting out of a new, better informed and complex basis for discussions about the relationships between the State, the civil society and the citizen in distinct European countries and regions. It will be useful to researchers in the field of adult education, as well as social scientists interested in topics related to civil society, such as NGOs, social economists, and practitioners concerned with the trends that are forcing adult education to recontextualise its aims and practices.

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 contributes to the setting out of a new, better informed and complex basis for discussions about the relationships between the State, the civil society and the citizen in distinct European countries and regions. It will be useful to researchers in the field of adult education, as well as social scientists interested in topics related to civil society, such as NGOs, social economists, and practitioners concerned with the trends that are forcing adult education to recontextualise its aims and practices.

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.