Literacy as social practice: Travelling between the everyday and other forms of learning

The framework of literacy as social practice is used in this chapter to analyse recent examples of everyday and community-based learning from two current research projects. Examples of how literacy and language practices can travel between everyday practices and systematic learning show that learning and teaching can be fluid, crossing boundaries and identities. The authors argue that identifying the ‘crossover’ learning strategies between formal and informal learning contexts is an important resource for developing effective community-based adult literacy programmes.