Imperatives associated with learning across working life (i.e., worklife learning) in contemporary societies are now directed towards achieving important individual, occupational, community, and societal goals. Achieving these goals necessitate understanding more fully how that learning is realised across the working age adults’ lives. Currently, considerations of that learning tend to be limited to what is realised through intentional educational experiences (i.e., lifelong education). Less emphasised and elaborated are understandings about how individuals’ learning and developmental arises across the lifespan as legacies of continuous and accumulative paths or tracks of experiences. These include, but largely sit outside of, intentional experiences provided by educational institutions or teaching. Moreover, given the person-particular nature of these pathways or tracks, the experiences they provide and individuals’ experiencing of them, required now are explanatory bases that encompass the experiences afforded these adults and how they come to engage and learn through them. This chapter makes the case for the conceptual and practical salience in capturing and elaborating individuals’ pathways of learning and development across their working lives: their personal curriculums. Drawing on empirical data from a selection of adults’ worklife history narratives, elaboration of sustaining employability and negotiating transitions across their working lives are advanced. Central to the case is the contributions and legacies of these personal curriculums. Those pathways are inclusive of what is afforded them through their work, community, work and the intentional educative experiences in which they participated, and how they, personally, engage with and learn through these experiences. So, more than elaborating these journeys or pathways, this chapter sets out a view of curriculum that is alternative to that which is enacted through institutions (e.g., schools, colleges, universities, workplaces), to offer a point of view about curriculum from the individual’s perspective. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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