This paper is one of the reports from the Adult Learners’ Lives project, a major NRDC research study carried out by members of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. The overall aim of the project has been to develop understandings of the relationships between learners’ lives and the literacy, language and numeracy (LLN) learning in which they are engaged, and to draw out the implications for the Skills for Life strategy. Starting from the perspectives of the adult learners the project focused on issues around motivation, participation, persistence and engagement. It complements other research from the NRDC which approaches these issues with different methodologies, such as the quantitative cohort studies and the effective practice studies, and work which focuses primarily on provision itself or on the Skills for Life infrastructure.
Relating adults lives and learning: participation and engagement in different settings
