ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 discusses the teaching and learning strategies used by both the Access to HE tutors and students. It is introduced by a brief discussion to remind readers of three important contexts which influenced tutors’ and students’ choices of teaching and learning strategies: organisation and curriculum, students’ prior experiences, and teachers’ personal histories. These strategies used by tutors involved promoting independent and active learning as well as collaborative learning, creating learning experiences that positively affected the students’ confidence, motivation and capacity to progress in their studies. The learning strategies tutors promoted also empowered the students and developed their agency as ‘second-chance’ learners. The chapter also considers students’ strategies for learning which were built around peer support and the use of multimodal communications to help them learn amidst the other demands of their daily lives. It concludes by recognising how both the tutors and students supported and promoted the students’ willingness to achieve their aspirations to access HE.
