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.