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Direct linkOzanne, Julie L.; Adkins, Natalie Ross; Sandlin, Jennifer A. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2005
Little empirical evidence exists on how adult literacy learners act as consumers. Yet, adult literacy programs often employ a "functional" approach to consumer education and assume that adult learners are deficient in consumer skills. Data from a qualitative study of the consumer behaviors of adult literacy learners are used to explore how adult…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Consumer Education, Adult Students, Adult Learning
