Year: 2005
Type: other
Abstract: BACKGROUNDThe Adult Learners' Lives project, based at Lancaster University Literacy Research Centre, is studying people's uses of language, literacy and numeracy at home, in the community and at work, their reasons for attending and continuing to attend classes, their perceptions of what they are learning and of how useful it is to them.As part of its first year activities, this project incorporated a Teacher-Researcher Fellowship Programme.It aimed to ensure an active role for practitioners in the research of the NRDC, and to build capacity for organisations to carry out research and reflective practice in the field of adult Language, Literacy and/or Numeracy (LLN).The involvement of teacher-researchers in the project ensures that the work done is relevant, geared to the needs of adult learners and that its value is recognised by teachers.The programme was designed for adult LLN practitioners currently working in the field.The six teacher-researchers on the programme were all practitioners at institutions which are research sites for the Adult Learners' Lives project:
Authors: Dianne Beck, Gill Burgess, Kath Gilbert, Russ Hodson, Andrew Hudson, Carol S. Woods, Roz Ivanič
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1783481979