ABSTRACT
Transitions and learning are inevitable, necessary, and ubiquitous across adults’ work biographies. These transitions have both personal and societal dimensions. They are personal insofar as they comprise changes that individuals will initiate and negotiate across their adult lives as their interests, roles, imperatives, and subjectivities change and are changed by them. They are societal as the sources of those changes are often a product of imperatives, norms, pressures, and requirements, particularly in the context of socio-economic transformations. This chapter explores learning at the nexus of life course, work, and transition in changing times, comparing and contrasting the analyses made in the chapters of this volume. The key dimensions of adult learning in the context of transitions are discussed in terms of their purposes, processes, contexts, and qualities. Central to this learning is a relational understanding of how it occurs at the interface between the person and broader social contexts and societal structures.
