Families, learning, impact and the national agendas

Details of the NIACE/FLLAG research conference which took place on 22/23 January 2009, including copies of presentations.

22 January 2009 - 23 January 2009

Learning as a family and parental involvement in children's education are leaping up the policy agenda. Growing amounts of research evidence are demonstrating the impact of family learning on national policy agendas. On the ground, practitioners are developing increasingly innovative ways of providing family learning and nurturing families as learning ecologies.

This NIACE/FLLAG research conference brought together those involved in researching family learning with those involved in providing it.

Remit

The conference aimed to:

Bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss and debate current thinking and issues around learning as a family
Examine how research, theory, policy and practice inter-relate
Share ideas about methodology that can be used to research and enhance learning as a family Debate some of the tensions inherent in policy implementation, e.g. when does intervention become social engineering?