Lifelong learning and the low‐skilled

Abstract

This article is a combined result of a three years research project on low‐skilled learners’ experiences as participants of various kinds of adult training and education in Denmark, and the findings of a three years research consortium on workplace learning, summing up and generalizing our various findings as to how low‐skilled adults function in relation to participation in training and education activities, how they feel about it, what is important to them, and consequently what works in practice in relation to this very important but often neglected group of adult learners.

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Knud Illeris

Knud Illeris is a professor of Lifelong Learning at Learning Lab Denmark, which is a unit with a special status at the Danish University of Education. He is internationally known for his books on The Three Dimensions of Learning and Adult Education and Adult Learning. He has also been the Research Leader of the LLD Consortium on Workplace Learning and the editor and main author of Learning in working Life, which is the final report of the Consortium. E‐mail: [email protected]