Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment Amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners : Routledge : 9780415828727 : 0415828724 : 15 Nov 2013 : "Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities and the link between learning, literacy and violence, not previously carried out in-depth in a small scale study. It breaks the negative stereo-types of adults who struggle to read and write, who are often labelled and stigmatised by dominant discourses, and in doing so exposes why and how Basic Skills Learners often find themselves in marginal positions. The structural inequalities many face from childhood to adulthood across the private and public domains of their lives are revealed and probed, thus challenging neo-liberalism claims of an apparently egalitarian social field. Applying a feminist, qualitative, longitudinal, ethnographic and participatory approach, the book offers a critical perspectiv