Identity and lifelong learning : becoming through lived experience

• Other Authors: Motulsky, Sue (Editor), Gammel, Jo Ann (Editor), Rutstein-Riley, Amy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020.
• Series: I am what I become: constructing identities as a lifelong learners
• Subjects: Adult education > Psychological aspects.; Identity (Psychology); Learning > Social aspects.; Education > Adult & Continuing Education.; Adult education, continuous learning.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806604944
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64802-215-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 285 pages)

"Learning and identity development are lifetime processes of becoming. The construction of self, of interest to scholars and practitioners in adult development and adult learning, is an ongoing process, with the self both forming and being formed by lived experience in privileged and oppressive...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I. Developmental transitions and life experience
• Chapter 1. Truly my heart's work: Rural emerging adults constructing meaningful lives / Donna M. San Antonio
• Chapter 2. Becoming AI? mother: Caregiving identity development / Sarit Lesser
• Chapter 3. I'm not done in any way: Identity growth, revision, and lifelong learning in late midlife women / Diana Giglio and Sue L. Motulsky
• Chapter 4. Growing up hearing, growing up deaf / Marie A. Lynch
• Chapter 5. Exploring late adulthood identity: Views of lifelong learning in two groups of older adults / Jamie D. Stockton
• Part II. Migration, cultural adjustment, and language learning
• Chapter 6. Becoming care workers: We are not only domestic workers / Daphna Arbell Kehila
• Chapter 7. Becoming an active learner: Reconstructing identity of north korean millennial defectors in south korea / Hyewon Park, JungHwan Kim, and Esther S. Prins
• Chapter 8. Multifaceted identities of an immigrant woman: An educational trajectory of becoming / Bita H. Zakeri
• Chapter 9. Interstitial spaces: A case study of english language learning and South African domestic work / Anna Kaiper-Marquez
• Part III. Learning and identity in work and career decision-making
• Chapter 10. 80/20: Making identities in making spaces / Eli Tucker-Raymond, Brian E. Gravel, and Ecco Pierce
• Chapter 11. Under the influence: The familial construction of career identity / Porscha Jackson
• Chapter 12. When self comes to the surface: Identity for women in career transition / Sue L. Motulsky
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors.