This book, which synthesizes research from psychology, sociology, and economics in Great Britain and elsewhere, maps the factors influencing motivation and introduces a long-term motivation strategy to help develop a lifelong learning society for the United Kingdom (UK). Eight chapters cover these topics: motivation to learn; different faces of learning motivation; motivation for learning activity; motivation for learning strategy; developing learning motivation in the family; the family's wider influence on motivation; environments; and policy implications. A postscript offers an action agenda that includes 57 recommendations for improving motivation for lifelong learning across the spheres of workplace, family, and community. Twenty-six tables/figures and 250 references are included. (The fundamental assertions emerging from the synthesis are as follows: (1) the levels of learning motivation displayed by individuals reflect their social and economic experience in general and their family experience in particular; (2) despite this experience, every healthy person can, in principle, rise to high levels of motivation to learn; and (3) at every point in society, practical steps can be taken to significantly improve learning motivation. It is suggested that the U K improve motivation for lifelong learning by drawing on the motivational efficiency in the market; the supply side of the equation; a specific skills agenda; a social learning agenda; and redistribution of public funds in the field of learning.) (MN)