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The theme of this issue is 'A community-based approach to literacy programs: taking learners' lives into account'. Selected chapters are indexed from TD/TNC 64.145 to TD/TNC 64.149. This chapter describes a staff development project designed to help adult education teachers connect their classes and curriculum with the community. The project is part of the Regional Adult Education Practitioners Training Project which was developed to supplement Baseline Training for adult education practitioners in Virginia, United States of America. The project aimed to develop training that would enable adult educators to incorporate community issues into their curricula using participatory approaches.

The theme of this issue is 'A community-based approach to literacy programs: taking learners' lives into account'. Selected chapters are indexed from TD/TNC 64.145 to TD/TNC 64.149. Program-setting dynamics may promote or impede adults' participation and learning. This chapter examines a process of staff development that centres on reflection as a means of improving these dynamics. Inquiry-based professional development positions teachers as active and reflective, able to construct their own professional practice and to generate as well as use knowledge. Through this process, teachers have learning opportunities which are embedded in their workplace routines and cultures. The author describes the work of the Adult Literacy Practitioner Inquiry Project begun in the United States of America in 1990 as an example of building a practitioner inquiry community and discusses some of the consequences of working together in inquiry-based staff development for diverse groups of literacy educators and learners.

The theme of this issue is 'A community-based approach to literacy programs: taking learners' lives into account'. Selected chapters are indexed from TD/TNC 64.145 to TD/TNC 64.149. This chapter defines popular education, both conceptually and descriptively, and offers advice to community-based organisations that wish to establish popular education programs. A list of resources for North American community-based organisations considering a popular education program is included.