My mother, Jane Mace, who has died aged 79 following a stroke, was a writer, researcher and pioneering educator in the field of adult literacy.
In her work in London – as director of the Cambridge House Adult Literacy Scheme in the 1970s; as head of Lee Community Education Centre, Goldsmiths’ College, in the 80s and 90s; and as senior lecturer in adult literacy education at South Bank University in the late 90s and early 2000s – Jane demonstrated an unwavering dedication to the idea of adult literacy as a social movement.
