Reducing barriers to participation in adult literacy tuition.
Date:
Wednesday, 15 September, 2010
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This briefing paper is designed to inform adult literacy practitioners, providers and policy makers about the barriers to participation in adult literacy tuition and how they might reduce them or their impact. It is the first of a series of briefing papers to summarise findings from recent NALA research.
We have produced this paper under one of the objectives in our strategic plan: ‘make it easier for more adults to develop their literacy and numeracy through education and training programmes. Under this objective, we
commissioned three pieces of research with ‘hard-to-reach’ groups – older learners, men and older people with literacy difficulties who do not use the adult literacy service – to identify and explore the barriers they
experience to taking part in adult literacy tuition. This paper brings together the findings from these reports and combines them with other national and international research to put forward some guidelines for reducing barriers
to participation.
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