Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: THE CONTEXT -- Introduction -- 1 A Kind of Higher Education -- Introduction -- Globalisation and Local Communities -- Social Capital and Citizenship -- Social Exclusion and Policies for Inclusion -- The Primary Purposes of Higher Education -- Higher Education and Lifelong Learning -- A New Higher Education -- 2 Action and Research -- Background Context -- Our Programme -- Our Action Research Model -- Adult Learners and Their Communities -- Conclusion -- 3 Surveying the Provision -- Community Organisations -- The Questionnaire -- Social Capital and Participation in Education -- PART II: EXPLORING THE KIND OF HIGHER EDUCATION DEBATES -- 4 Skills and Lifelong Learning in the Community -- CAP's Skills Framework -- Transferability -- Level of Learning -- Skills Outcomes -- Teaching Process -- 5 A Curriculum Off-limits: Social and Cultural Relevance -- Introduction -- The Teaching Relationship -- Curriculum Content -- Teaching as Engaged Pedagogy -- Tutor Input -- Curriculum off Limits -- 6 Educational Guidance: Customer or Citizen? -- Educational Guidance and Learner Support - in Policy and Theory -- People and Places -- Learner Autonomy and Active Citizenship -- Tutor Accounts - an Holistic Approach -- Group and Peer Guidance -- Conclusion -- 7 Technology in the Community -- IT in the CAP Community -- PART III: THE LEARNERS' STORIES -- Introduction -- Social Capital -- Citizenship -- Identity -- 8 Nurturing Social Capital in Communities: Women in East Lanes -- Human Capital -- The Global/Local Interface -- Citizenship -- Social Capital -- Subjectivities -- 9 Nurturing Social Capital in Communities: The DAB Centre -- Human Capital -- The Global/Local Interface -- Citizenship -- Social Capital -- Subjectivities -- Conclusion