Demonstrating what it is like to be an adult learner in today's world, this book focuses on
language, literacy and numeracy learning. The authors explore the complex relationship …

The delivery of education and the outcome it produces largely depend on how students are
taught, the resources they are exposed to along with the kind of facilities they are provided …

Social class is a major determining factor of people's life chances. Much sociology-based
research shows that socio-economic position is still one of the best predictors of who will …

In this article, we highlighted the stories of university student mentors who are involved in the
Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME). The AIME program works with young …

This paper explores notions of space in learning, specifically that of the creative learning
space. It maintains that space, far from being neutral, is both socially and psychologically …

This paper focuses on the results of a mixed-methods study of 13 participants in a Radical
Humanities programme designed as a transformative learning space for low-income adults …

Academic second-chance education (SCE) provides young adults with the opportunity for
upward mobility. However, many young people in academic SCE have unfavourable …

This book was born from the editors' desires to deeply understand the connection between
philosophy and pedagogy in their own practice. We wanted to share our understandings …

University enrolments across the world continue to increase based largely on a mass
movement towards higher education (HE) participation that traverses traditional cultural …

In a previous study it has been suggested that there are six stages that adults move through
before they feel ready to participate in higher education, and proposed a chain-of-response …