The Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (JACE), now published by the Manchester University Press(link is external), is essential reading for keeping in touch with the field of post-compulsory education. Published twice a year, it provides a forum for rigorous theoretical and practical work in the broad fields of lifelong learning and adult, community and continuing education.

The journal is peer-reviewed and focuses on international and national issues and is aimed at researchers, professionals and practitioners in all sectors. It publishes both research articles and reflections on policy and practice, and offers opportunities for all concerned with post-compulsory education to make contributions to debate.

Now available online:

Journal of Adult and Continuing Education - Volume 19, Number 2 / Autumn 2013(link is external)

This issue contains:

Editorial - Michael Osborne  DOI: 10.7227/JACE.19.2.1(link is external)

‘Working-class’ education: Notions of widening participation in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries - Denise Robinson, Martyn Walker  DOI: 10.7227/JACE.19.2.2(link is external)

Basic eligibility: Threshold or fork in the road to higher education? - Per Andersson  DOI: 10.7227/JACE.19.2.3(link is external)

‘There was something about aspiration’: Widening participation policy affects in England and Australia - Sam Sellar, John Storan  DOI: 10.7227/JACE.19.2.4(link is external)

The adult learner: From a narrative perspective - Jennifer A. Barnett  DOI: 10.7227/JACE.19.2.5(link is external)

Longwy: Higher education and health mobilised in the process of regeneration - Magali Hardouin, Erwan le Goff  DOI: 10.7227/JACE.19.2.6(link is external)

Community engagement, globalisation, and restorative action: Approaching systems and research in the universities - Catherine A. Odora Hoppers  DOI: 10.7227/JACE.19.2.7(link is external)

Reviews - Ralph Catts, Rob Mark  DOI: 10.7227/JACE.19.2.8(link is external)

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