This series explores adult education and lifelong learning, emphasising the tensions between universal models and approaches that value local cultures, traditions, histories, and mutual understanding between diverse communities. Contributions to this series contribute original knowledge and insights in adult education and lifelong learning, based on original empirical research and deep theoretical analysis, and stimulate debate on policy and practice. Books are geographically broad, drawing on contributions from within and without the Anglophone world, and encompass research-based monographs and edited collections, thematic edited collections addressing key issues in the field, and trenchant overviews designed to stimulate intellectual debate among wider audiences.