Further Education has reached a crossroads, with questions being asked about its function, aims and focus, as well as querying the role of the FE teacher, the key aspects of the curriculum and which values should inform FE pedagogy. It explores these questions and conveys the sense of uncertainty that those in the field are experiencing today.

Section One: Setting the Scene 1. Introduction: Identity, Resistance and Creativity in Post Compulsory Education, Pete Bennett and Rob Smith 2. "Hello...who am I?": The Change Agent, the Progressive Practitioner, the Game-player of Performativity, Jennifer Addo 3. The FE teacher educator experience: "Guardians of the Pedagogy", Sandi Bates, Anne Groll, Claire Saunders and Rob Smith 4. Through the Looking Glass: From Reflective Practice to Flexion of Practice, David Wise 5. Enquiry-Based Learning and Adult Learners: A Discussion inspired by Foucault, Liz Stephenson 6. Something out of Nothing: Reflection on the Emerging Self as Teacher, Anisa Ali, Joe Harrison and Julie A. Wilde Section Two: Policy and Pain 7. The Educational Disconnect: Why an Individual Response to a System Disorder is "Rearranging Deckchairs on the Titanic", Matthew Parsons 8. FE Teacher Identity: Marketisation and Metaphor, Chris Davies 9. Character Building: How accommodating is the FE Newbuild(TM)?, Pete Bennett 10. "Feeding the Monster": Vocational Pedagogy and FE policy, Alan Davis, Donna Drew, Emma Love and Rob Smith 11. The FE Apostate's Tale, Joel Petrie Section Three: Resistance and Creativity 12. The Experience of Ofsted: Learning, Fear and Standards, Catherine Gallagher and Rob Smith 13. Identity and Autonomy in Lifelong Education, Victoria Wright and Theresa Loughlin 14. The Power of Research-informed Practice and Pedagogic Principles over the Pseudo-Science of Inspection: An Ungraded Approach to the Evaluation of Teachers, Matt O'Leary 15. Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Developing Instructor and Teacher Identities in a Military Context: A Conversation, Steve Coleby and Stu Smith 16. Constellations of Practice, Lou Mycroft and Kay Sidebottom 17. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Discourses of Autonomy and Reason in Further Education, Kirstie Harrington 18. Concluding Thoughts: Critical Collegiality and the Stratification of Agency, Pete Bennett and Rob Smith.