Based on the Transforming Lives research project, this book explores the transformative power of further education.
The book outlines a timely and critical approach to educational research and practice, and draws extensively on the testimonies of students and teachers to construct a model of transformative teaching and learning. It critiques reductive 'skills' policies in further education and illuminates the impact colleges and lifelong learning have on social justice outcomes for individuals, their families and communities.
For trainee teachers, teachers, leaders, researchers and policy makers alike, the book presents a persuasive argument for transformative approaches to teaching and learning, and highlights the often unmeasured and under-appreciated holistic social benefits of further education.
Introduction
1. The Transforming Lives research project and the further education policy context
2. Researching further education and putting a critical embodied research methodology into practice
3. Using digital technologies in social justice research
4. Stories of transformative teaching and learning
5. Transformative teaching and learning and social justice
6. Transformative teaching and learning and education leadership
7. So what is transformative teaching and learning? Extending our theoretical and embodied understandings
8. What needs to be done
