ABSTRACT
This book is based on a research project, Older People and Lifelong Learning: Choices and Experiences, originally funded through the Economic and Social Research Council’s Growing Older: Extending Quality Life Programme (GO), which ran from 1999 to 2004. In 2005, following approval from the Programme’s Steering Group, the research became an associated project within the ESRC’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP), joining other projects that were concerned with aspects of lifelong learning. It was felt that the research findings would add a new dimension to the Programme and would have specific relevance to the TLRP crosscutting theme of learners through the life course. This resurrection of the project afforded an excellent opportunity to revisit the data and to reconsider some of the findings in the light of more recent developments in lifelong learning and the growing interest in active ageing worldwide as well as, hopefully, making a worthwhile contribution to the overall work of the TLRP.
