Foreword Information on authors Chapter 1 Introduction and overview of chapters Judy Harris Chapter 2 Different faces and functions of RPL: an assessment perspective Per Andersson Chapter 3 Questions of knowledge and curriculum in the recognition of prior learning Judy Harris Chapter 4 A disciplinary-specific approach to the recognition of prior informal experience in adult pedagogy: 'rpl' as opposed to 'RPL' Mignonne Breier Chapter 5 Portfolio-based assessment of prior learning: a cat and mouse chase after invisible criteria Yael Shalem and Carola Steinberg Chapter 6 RPL and the disengaged learner: the need for new starting points Roslyn Cameron Chapter 7 Beyond Galileo's telescope: situated knowledge and the recognition or prior learning Elana Michelson Chapter 8 Using critical discourse analysis to illuminate power and knowledge in RPL Helen Peters Chapter 9 The politics of difference: non/recognition of the foreign credentials and prior work experience of immigrant professionals in Canada and Sweden Shibao Guo and Per Andersson Chapter 10 RPL: an emerging and contested practice in South Africa Ruksana Osman Chapter 11 'Tools of mediation': an historical-cultural approach to RPL Linda Cooper Chapter 12 Vocations, 'graduateness' and the recognition of prior learning Leesa Wheelahan Chapter 13 Recognising prior learning: what do we know? Helen Pokorny Chapter 14 Reconfiguring RPL and its assumptions: a complexified view Tara Fenwick. Chapter 15 Understanding the transformative dimension of RPL Susan Whittaker, Ruth Whittaker and Paula Cleary Chapter 16 Endword Michael Young Index.