ABSTRACT
Throughout this book workplace learners have generally been referred to as ‘employees’ or ‘workers’, and only in special cases have I referred to more specific groups of learners. The one special group that I have mentioned most often is undoubtedly ‘the low-skilled’. This is partly because this is, from a learning point of view, by far the biggest group meriting special attention, but also because this group is very often overlooked in connection with workplace learning initiatives, or there is a failure to appreciate that their background for learning is fundamentally different from that of other groups.
