Patterns and trends in part‐time adult education participation in relation to UK nation, class, place of participation, gender, age and disability, 1998–2003Footnote¹

1. The analysis presented in this paper represents foundational work currently being conducted as part of the Learning Lives: Learning, Identity and Agency in the Life‐Course study which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Award Reference RES139250111, and is part of the ESRC’s Teaching an Learning Research Project. Learning Lives is a collaborative project involving the University of Exeter (Gert Biesta, Flora Macleod, Michael Tedder, Paul Lambe), the University of Brighton (Ivor Goodson, Norma Adair), the University of Leeds (Phil Hodkinson, Heather Hodkinson, Geoff Ford, Ruth Hawthorne) and the University of Stirling (John Field, Irene Malcolm). For further information see www.learninglives.org.

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