Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Michael Osborne, Muir Houston and Nuala Toman -- Poor relations : exploring discipline, research and pedagogy in academic identity / Janice Malcolm and Miriam Zukas -- To those that have shall be given? : differing expectations of support among dyslexic students / Elisabet Weedon and Sheila Riddell -- Making meaning in workplace settings / John Stevenson -- Older adults' learning patterns : trajectories and changing identities? / Brian Findsen and Lucila Carvalho -- Talking about my learning generation : the role of historical time and generational time over the life course / John Field and Irene Malcolm -- Researching literacy for learning in the vocational curriculum / James Carmichael ... [et al.] -- Exploring learning in a small rural community / Darryl Dymock -- Fire wall : words and action in vocational training / Anna-Lena Gransson -- Reality bites : bringing the 'real' world of work into educational classrooms / Nicky Solomon -- The effects of social and organisational mediation on the student learning experience : an introduction to the SOMUL project / Rob Edmunds, Muir Houston and Ruth Watkins -- What are the implications of an uncertain future for pedagogy, curriculum & qualifications? / Leesa Wheelahan -- Lifelong learning on individual accounts : the impact of individual learning accounts on workers of low educational levels / Albert Renkema -- Essential skills training in canada for under-literate workers : 'vocational representations' of sectoral committee and training context actors / Chantal Ouellet ...[et al.] -- Adult education, museums and critique : towards new methods of researching the field / Sotiria Grek -- Blogs and wikis as disruptive technologies : is it time for a new pedagogy? / Rita Kop -- The pedagogy of confession : exploring identity and the online self / Dianne Conrad -- Concluding remarks / Michael Osborne.