Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- A comprehensive understanding of human learning / Knud Illeris -- Learning to be a person in society: learning to be me / Peter Jarvis -- What "form" transforms?: a constructive-developmental approach to transformative learning / Robert Kegan -- Expansive learning: towards an activity-theoretical reconceptualization / Yrjő Engestrőm -- Pragmatism: learning as creative imagination / Bente Elkjaer -- Adult learning theory: evolution and future directions / Sharan B. Merriam -- A model of learning: optimizing the effectiveness of learning strategies / John A.T. Hattie and Gregory M. Donoghue -- Transformative learning theory / Jack Mezirow -- Multiple approaches to understanding / Howard Gardner -- Affective dimensions of learning / Carolyn Jackson -- Biographical learning -- within the lifelong learning discourse / Peter Alheit -- The life history of the self / Mark Tennant -- Culture, mind and education / Jerome Bruner -- Experience, pedagogy and social practices / Robin Usher -- 'Normal learning problems' in youth: in the context of underlying cultural convictions / Thomas Ziehe -- A social theory of learning / Etienne Wenger -- Transitional learning and reflexive facilitation: the case of learning for work / Danny Wildemeersch and Veerle Stroobants -- Interrupting the politics of learning / Gert Biesta.