This book presents a collection of chapters-both empirical and conceptual-that challenge existing paradigms of learning and teaching, provides examples of pedagogical spaces and practices that nurture future-oriented learners, explicates identities and transitions in learning, and offers alternative frames for moving forward.

Part I: Introducing the focus on learners.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Flipping the lens from educator to learner.- Chapter 2. Key constructs: conceptions of learners' future-orientation, identities, contexts and practices.- Part II: Framing the issues.- Chapter 3. Rethinking Learning for a High Skills Economy: What a cultural-historical approach can offer.- Chapter 4. Learning in a designed world: Symbolic technologies and epistemic practices in the evolution of professional knowing.- Chapter 5. Researching lifelong learning policy: Concepts and Tools.- Chapter 6. Future of work, transitions, and future-oriented learning.- Part III: Flipping the lens in practice.- Chapter 7. Enhancing learning in the workplace.- Chapter 8. Towards Expertise-Operationalizing Identity Development and Considerations for the Singapore Work-Study Programme.- Chapter 9. Dialogic inquiry: a pedagogy for foregrounding future-oriented learners and their learning.- Chapter 10. Adult Learners' Sense-making in Blended Learning Environments: Healthcare and Workplace Safety and Health (WSH).