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For trainee teachers, teachers, leaders, researchers and policymakers alike, this is a persuasive argument for transformative approaches to teaching and learning which highlights the often unmeasured and under-appreciated strong holistic social benefits of further education. Based on the Transforming Lives research project, this book explores the transformative power of further education. Outlining a timely and critical approach to educational research and practice, the book draws extensively on the testimonies of students and teachers to construct a model of transformative teaching and learning. The book critiques reductive 'skills' policies in further education and illuminates the impact colleges and Lifelong Learning have on social justice both for individuals, their families and communities.

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This book is a must-read for everybody that cares about further education. It shows the important role it plays in transforming lives. Lyn Tett, University of Edinburgh and University of Huddersfield Further education totters from crisis to crisis. This book - based on innovative research with students and staff - shows how transformative teaching and learning could renew the sector and make it more responsive to community needs. John Holford, University of Nottingham This excellent and accessible book challenges the notion that further education is overwhelmingly an instrument for material advancement and provides a vivid demonstration of the transformative potential inherent in classrooms. Stephen Brookfield, Antioch University An important book for our current times, revealing how colleges and social justice education deliver lifelong learning experiences, changing lives and communities along the way. Trace Ollis, Deakin University

Transformative Teaching and Learning in Further Education offers a timely exploration of the powerful impact that further and adult education providers can have on the lives of disadvantaged learners and their local communities. Educational Review

"""Transformative Teaching and Learning in Further Education offers a timely exploration of the powerful impact that further and adult education providers can have on the lives of disadvantaged learners and their local communities."" Educational Review"

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Rob Smith is Professor of Education at Birmingham City University based in the Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE). Vicky Duckworth is Professor in Secondary and Further Education at Edge Hill University and lead for the Social Justice and Equity Network.

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