ABSTRACT
The Literacies for Learning in Further Education (LfLFE) project was a collaboration between two universities – Stirling and Lancaster – and four further education (FE) colleges – Anniesland, Perth, Lancaster and Morecambe, and Preston in the UK. It was funded for three years from January 2004. The project drew on work already done on literacy practices engaged in by people in schools, higher education and the community and sought to extend the insights gained from these studies into further education. It aimed to explore the literacy practices of students and those practices expected in different parts of the curriculum and to develop pedagogic interventions to support students’ learning more effectively. This project involved examining literacy across the many domains of people’s experiences, the ways in which these practices are mobilised and realised within different domains and their capacity to be mobilised and recontextualised elsewhere to support learning.
