ABSTRACT
In this phase of the study, the kinds of learning activities currently undertaken and identified in the questionnaire responses were explored in more depth through interviews with some of the questionnaire respondents and through the use of learning ‘logs’ or diaries. In particular, the emphasis was now on obtaining a fuller picture of some of the respondents’ day-to-day lives post-work and further exploration of their current experiences of, and views about, learning through listening to the voices of these older people themselves. In this way, it was hoped to obtain a better understanding of the very wide contexts in which these older people were currently undertaking what they saw as learning, how it was accommodated in their daily lives and its significance to them. Accordingly, it was again equally important to obtain the views both of older people currently enrolled in a class or course and those of who were not presently participating formally but who may have seen themselves as learning in other ways.
