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This guide for practitioners has the following aims: to outline the debate about integrated learning for adults with learning difficulties in continuing education programs; to provide examples of integration in action drawn from a range of settings in continuing education in England and Wales; and to encourage practitioners to develop similar programs. Chapter 1 outlines the arguments for and against integration. Chapter 2 lists barriers to integration. Chapters 3-9 describe sample programs, including the following: (1) one that links five colleges (Bournville, Gateshead, Langley, Wrexham, and Chippenham Colleges); (2) two that pair adults with learning difficulties with volunteer "regular" adult continuing education students with similar interests; (3) the Studylink Project in Liverpool, which mainstreams adults with profound learning difficulties into "regular" vocational classes, providing one-to-one support where needed; (4) a program in Lowestoft made possible by collaboration between the social services department and a college; (5) the summer school for adult learners at Lancaster University; and (6) a program in Sheffield that provides transportation (or the cost of it) to

Author

Jeannie Sutcliffe

Publisher

National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 19B De Montfort Street, Leicester EL1 7GE, England, United Kingdom (4.95 British pounds)

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781872941189