‘Reflect’, the magazine of the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC) provided a forum for dialogue between research, policy and practice.
Special Report: Effective Practice
What is good practice in Skills for Life? 4
John Vorhaus with contributions from Greg Brooks, Maxine Burton, Sue Grief, Jon Swain, Mike Baynham, Celia Roberts, Mel Cooke, James Simpson, Maria Kambouri and Harvey Mellar
Insights from a practitioner-researcher 9
Sue Nieduszynska
Startling benefits from embedding 10
Tom Jupp
Findings that vocational staff must heed 12
David Wylie
Uses and misuses of formative assessment 13
Kathryn Ecclestone
Practitioner research: just a fling… or a long-term relationship? 14
Mary Hamilton with contributions from Jenny Wedgbury, Bronwen Ray, James McGoldrick and Cheryl Dillon
Voices on the page 18
Samantha Duncan
Unions catch the learning bug 20
Judith Swift
From generation to generation 22
John Bynner and Samantha Parsons
Quick Reads 24
Kay Jackaman
ESOL classrooms offer a refuge 26
David Mallows
Adult numeracy in the United States 28
Anestine Hector-Mason, Katherine Safford-Ramus and Diana Coben
Reviews 30
Prime Sites: What is Wikipedia? by Karen Sheard Book: Changing Faces of Adult Literacy, Language and Numeracy: a critical history by Mary Hamilton and Yvonne Hillier. Reviewed by Juliet Merrifield
Research notes 33
Letters 34
Glossary 35
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