ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we contribute to the nuancing of the notion of ‘transition’ through the lens of the literacy practices of students on courses in colleges of further education. We rst briey describe the Literacies for Learning in Further Education project on which the chapter draws. We then introduce the concept of ‘literacy practices’ as part of people’s lives in and out of college, focusing particularly on the ways in which identities are inscribed in literacy practices, and on the role of identication in people’s participation in them. In particular, we show how literacy practices can be analysed into constituents, each of which can be congured in innite ways. A change in the conguration of any one of these constituents changes the nature of the practice and may change the extent to which a person will identify with the roles and subject positions held out by the practice.
