Adult education in times of crisis and change: perspectives on access, learning careers and identities

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This book emerges from a conference held at the University of Algarve in Faro,Portugal, in July 2022 by the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network. Researchers from across Europe came to discuss and share ideas about adult education in times of crisis and change. In 2022 the world was still immersed in a global period of change and crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the theme of the conference reflected this situation. However, it was not the first time the network’s conference has focused on change in adult education. Looking back at the 2013 conference of the network in Linkoping, Sweden, the theme was ‘Times of Change: The role of adult education in times of crisis’. The notion of ‘times of change’ has become relevant again as a result of the pandemic and its effects on adult education, and the lives of both adult students and adult educators. Issues of crisis and change, therefore, emerge over time albeit in a different context.