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In 1999 the Adult, Community and Further Education Board (Victoria) launched the first further education conceptual framework produced in Australia under the title 'Transforming lives transforming communities'. The transformation of lives through learning occurs both within the adult community education sector and within the wider training system. That adult education in the community can transform lives and transform communities may have appeared to the uninitiated to be a bold claim. The ten community portraits contained in this publication leave no doubt that the Adult Community Education (ACE) sector in Victoria does just that, unobtrusively, routinely and consistently. The ten portraits in this book show how locally owned adult education turns everyday learning into social and economic wellbeing. Taken alone, each portrait gives us a particular insight into the daily transformation of adults and their local communities. Put together, the group portrait shows how strongly ACE is growing the community asset we call social capital.