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Black, Stephen; Bee, Barbara – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
This article explores adult literacy pedagogy in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector which has long provided most adult literacy programmes. We draw on semi-structured interviews with a small group of eight teachers undertaken in 2005 as part of a project on the social capital outcomes of adult literacy programmes.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Progressive Education, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
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Black, Stephen; Yasukawa, Keiko; Brown, Tony – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
The dominant discourse on adult literacy and numeracy in Australia sees the federal government, industry, workforce skills agencies and the media speaking with one voice on the "crisis" involving workers' low literacy and numeracy skills. Underpinning this discourse are the Australian results of the international Adult Literacy and Life…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Manufacturing Industry