Books from ESREA networks
Access, Learning Careers and Identities
Edited books produced by the network
Merril, B., González Monteagudo, J. (2010). Educational Journeys and Changing Lives: Adult Student Experiences, Vol. 2. Seville: University of Seville.
Merrill, B., González Monteagudo, J. (2010). Educational Journeys and Changing Lives: Adult Student Experiences, Vol. 1. Seville: University of Seville.
Merrill, B. (1997). Access, Equity, Participation and Organisational Change. Warwick: University of Warwick.
Conference proceedings
Merrill, B., Nizinska, A., Galimberti, A., Eneau, J., Sanojca, E., Bezzan, S. (eds) 2019. Exploring Learning Contexts: Implications for Access, learning Careers and Identities, Rennes, University Rennes 2/ESREA.
Merrill, B., Gonzàlez Monteagudo, J., Nizinska, A., Galimberti, A., Ballesteros-Moscosio, M.A. (Eds.) (2017). Adult learning, educational careers and social change. Seville: University of Seville.
Merrill, B. (Ed.) (2013). Transitions and Identity in Learning Life. Aveiro: University of Warwick & University of Aveiro.
Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning
Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development
Edited books produced by the network
Gravani, M. N., Zarifis, G. K., & Jõgi, L. (Eds.). (2020). The role of higher education in the professionalisation of adult educators. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ➡
2011 Proceedings “The futures of adult educator(s): agency, identity and ethos” ➡
2009 Proceedings “Educating the adult educator: Quality provision and assessment in Europe” ➡
Between Global and Local – Adult Learning and Communities
Edited books produced by the network
Evans, R. (Ed.) (2009/10). Local development, community and adult learning – Learning landscapes between the mainstream and the margins, Vols 1 & 2. Duisburg: Nisaba Verlag. ➡
Conference proceedings
Macarena Cortés, Mar Lugo, Susana Vidigal, Emilio Lucio-Villegas (Eds.) (2022). Looking back for the future. Reconsidering adult learning and communities. Proceedings of the 12th conference; see Lookingbackforthefuture.pdf (uhu.es)
Guimarães, P., Cavaco, C., Marrocos, L., Paulos, C., Bruno, A., Rodrigues, S., & Marques, M. (Eds.) (2014). Local change, social actions and adult learning: challenges and responses. Lisbon: University of Lisbon.
Ünlühisarcıklı, Ö., Güvercin; G., Seçkin, & Sabırlı, I. (Eds.) (2011/13). Positioning and Conceptionalizing Adult Education and Learning within Local Development, Vols 1 & 2. Istanbul: Bogazici University Press.
Lucio-Villegas, L. (2010). Transforming/researching communities. El Masnou: dialogos.red.
Kurantowicz, E. (2008). Local in Global – Adult Learning and Community Development. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo naukowe.
Education and Learning of Older Adults
Journal’s special issues guest edited by the Network
Golding, B., Findsen, B., Jelenc Krašovec, S., & Schmidt-Hertha, B. (2017). Special Issue on ‘Getting of Wisdom’ – Learning in Later Life. Australian Journal of Adult Learning – AJAL 57(3).
Boström, A.-K. & Schmidt-Hertha, B. (2017). Special Issue on Intergenerational Relationships and Lifelong Learning. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships15(1).
Conference proceedings
Žemaitaityte, I. & Mikulioniene. S. (Eds.) (2013). Learning opportunities for older adults: Forms, providers, policies (pp. 89-103). ➡
Jelenc Krašovec, S., & Radovan, M. (Eds.) (2012). Intergenerational Solidarity and Older Adults’ Education in Community. Conference Proceedings. Ljubljana.
Gender and Adult Learning
Edited books produced by the network
Endepohls-Ulpe, M. & Ostrouch-Kamińska, J. (Eds.) (2019). Gender – Diversity – Intersectionality (New) Perspectives in Adult Education. German: Waxmann. ISBN 978-3-8309-3883-5.
Maksimović, M., Ostrouch-Kamińska, J., Popović, K., Bulajić, A. (Eds.) (2016). Contemporary Issues and Perspectives on Gender Research in Adult Education. Belgrade: University of Belgrade. ➡
Ostrouch-Kamińska, J., Fontanini, Ch., Gaynard, S. (2012). Considering gender in academia: (in)visible act. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Naukowe DSW. ➡
Dybbroe, B. & Ollagnier, E. (2003). Challenging Gender in Lifelong Learning: European Perspectives. Copenhagen: Roskilde University Press.
History of Adult Education and Training in Europe
Edited books produced by the previous History network Cross-cultural Studies in the Education of Adults
Laot F. F., Bron M. (Ed.), (2020), Pioneering Women in European Adult Education 1860s/70s-1910s, Pedagogika Społeczna/Social Pedagogy Quarterly,Vol 1 (75), Year XIX. (http://pedagogikaspoleczna.com/1-2020/)
Hake, B.J. (Ed.) (2005). Workers as Travellers, Migrants and Refugees: Border-crossings and the construction of proletarian public spheres in Europe 1890–1933. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hake, B. J. & Steele, T. (Eds.) (1997). No 5: Intellectuals, Activists and Reformers: Studies of cultural, social and educational reform movements 1890-1930. Leeds: Leeds Studies in Continuing Education.
Hake, B.J., Steele, T., Tiana, A. (Eds.) (1996). No 4: Masters, Missionaries and Militants: Studies of social movements and popular adult education 1890-1939. Leeds: Leeds Studies in Continuing Education.
Marriott, S. & Hake, B. J. (Eds.) (1994). No 3: Cultural and Intercultural Experiences in European Adult Education: Essays on popular and higher education since 1890. Leeds: Leeds Studies in Continuing Education.
Hake B, J. & Marriott, S. (Eds.) (1992). No 2: Adult Education between Cultures: Encounters and identities in European adult education since 1890. Leeds: Leeds Studies in Continuing Education.
Friedenthal-Hasse, M., Hake, B.J., Marriott, S. (Eds.) (1991. No 1: British-Dutch-German Relationships in Adult Education 1880-1930: Studies in the theory and history of cross-cultural communication in adult education. Leeds: Leeds Studies in Continuing Education.
Transformative and Emancipatory Adult Education
George A. Koulaouzides & Dina Soeiro (eds.) (2024). Reimagining transformative and emancipatory adult education for a world to come. Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the ESREA Transformative and Emancipatory Adult Education Network (5-7 July 2023, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece). Fylatos Publishing ➡
Life History and Biography
Edited books produced by the network
Wright, H.R. & Høyen, M. (2020) (Eds.) Discourses We Live By: Narratives of Social and Educational Endeavour. Open Book Publishers: Cambridge (UK). ➡
Formenti, L. & West, L. (2016). Stories that make a difference. Exploring the collective, social and political potential of narratives in adult education research. Pensa Multimedia: Lecce.
Evans, R. (Ed) (2016). Before, Beside and After (Beyond) the Biographical Narrative. Duisburg: Nisaba Verlag.
Formenti, L., West, L. & Horsdal, M. (2014) (Eds.). Embodied narratives. Connecting stories, bodies, cultures ad ecologies. University Press of Southern Denmark: Odense (DK).
Formenti, L. (2006) (Ed.). Dare voce al cambiamento. La ricerca interroga la vita adulta. Unicopli: Milano.
Alheit, P., Bron, A., Brugger, E. & Dominicé, P. (1995) (Eds.). The biographical approach in European adult education. Verband Wiener Volksbildung: Wien.
Journal’s special issues guest edited by the network
Gonzalez Monteagudo, J. (Ed.) (2008). Approches non-francophones des histoires de vie en Europe. Pratiques de formation/Analyses, 55, Université Paris 8
Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms
Edited books produced by the network
Pilch Ortega, A., & Schröttner, B. (Eds.) (2012). Transnational Spaces and Regional Localization. Social Networks, Border Regions and Local-Global Relations. Münster, New York, München, Berlin 2012: Waxmann Verlag. ➡
Conference proceedings
Sprung, A. & Pilch-Ortega, A.(Eds.) (2019). ‘Building Solidarities for Anti-Racist Adult Education’. Proceedings of the Conference of the ESREA Network on Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms Conference, 13th – 15th June 2018 (Edinburgh). Graz: University of Graz.➡
Gołębniak, M. & Starnawski,M. (Eds.) (2015).“Multiculturalism” today: aspirations, realities and crisis debates. The 3rd conference of the ESREA Migration, Ethnicity, Racism and Xenophobia Network. Conference Proceedings. Wroclaw: University of Lower Silesia. ➡
Moser, H., Pilch Ortega, A., & Sprung, A. (Eds.) (2012). Europe in crisis – migrations, racisms and belongings in the new economic order. Proceedings book. Graz: University of Graz.
ESREA Migration, Racism and Xenophobia Network (Eds.) (2009). Proceedings of the ESREA-Conference “Diversity and Social Cohesion – are these incompatible objectives? Sheffield: University of Sheffield. ➡
Policy Studies in Adult Education
ESREA series
Milana, M., & Holford, J. (Eds.) (2014). Adult Education Policy and the European Union: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. ➡
Edited books produced by the network
Milana, M., Rasmussen, P, Bussi, M. (Eds.) (2024). Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ➡
Special issue of Journal of Adult and Continuing Education has been published as a result of the Network activities Adult education and migrations: Migrants a mixed bag?, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (2020) ➡
Milana, M., Holford, J. & Mohorčič Špolar, V. (Eds.) (2016). Adult and Lifelong Education: Global, national and local perspectives. London: Routledge. ➡
Journal’s special issues guest edited by the network
Capitalism(s) and the future of adult education policy, European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults – RELA, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021) ➡
Responsibility, Participation and Social Justice in Adult Education, Encyclopaideia, Vol 23, No 53 (2019) ➡
Vulnerability in and of adult education, Scuola Democratica, Vol 2 (2019) ➡
International organizations, adult education policy, and the “common good”, Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol. 50 NO. 2 (2018) ➡
Societal sustainability: The contribution of adult education to sustainable societies, International Review of Education, Vol. 62, No. 5 (2016)
Public Policy and the ‘Sustainability’ of Adult Education, Encyclopaideia, Vol. XVIII, No. 4 (2014) ➡
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Post-communist Countries, European Education, Vol. 46, No. 4 (2014) ➡
Adult and Lifelong Education: The European Union, its member states and the world, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol., 3, No. 3 (2014)
Adult and lifelong education: Global, national and local perspectives, Globalisation, Societies and Education, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2013) ➡
Working Life and Learning
Books from Former ESREA Networks
Transformative Processes in Learning and Education
Nicolaides, A., Eschenbacher, S., Buergelt, P., Gilpin-Jackson, Y., Welch, M., Misawa, M. (2022). The Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Link.
Journal’s special issues guest edited by the network
Adult Education Special Issue, vol. 1, Spring 2016.
Triennial Proceedings
Formenti, L., Galimberti, A. & Del Negro, G. (eds.) (2023). New seeds for a world to come. Policies, practices and lives in adult education and learning. Proceedings of the 10th ESREA Triennial Conference, University of Milano Bicocca, Department of Human Sciences for Education, 29 September – 1 October 2022. Milano: Ledizioni
Käpplinger, B., Lichte, N., Haberzeth, E., Kulmus, C. (2014). Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional Times. Conference Proceedings. Berlin: Humboldt University
Lucio-Villegas, E. & Del Carmen Martinez, M. (Eds.) (2007). Proceedings of the 5th ESREA European Research Conference. Adult Leaning and the Challenges of Social and Cultural Diversity: Diverse Lives, Cultures, Learnings and Literacies. Vol. 1. Seville: Diálogos.
Lucio-Villegas, E. & Del Carmen Martinez, M. (Eds.) (2007). Proceedings of the 5th ESREA European Research Conference. Adult Leaning and the Challenges of Social and Cultural Diversity: Diverse Lives, Cultures, Learnings and Literacies. Vol. 2. Seville: Diálogos.
Lucio-Villegas, E. & Del Carmen Martinez, M. (Eds.) (2007). Proceedings of the 5th ESREA European Research Conference. Adult Leaning and the Challenges of Social and Cultural Diversity: Diverse Lives, Cultures, Learnings and Literacies. Vol. 3. Seville: Diálogos.
Special editions
Bron, M. jr, Guimaraes, P., Kaus, A. & Zarifis, G. (eds.) (2023). The good life. Barry J. Hake on a high learning curve. Groningen
Celebratory volume on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Barry Hake, Co-founder of ESREA.
You can download the volume by clicking on the title. Printed copies can be made available on payment of an agreed price plus cost of postage. Contact the ESREA Secretariat for information (esrea_sec@die-bonn.de).