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Robinson-Pant, Anna – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
Literacy policy and programming in developing countries continues to be influenced by the assumption that without literacy, an adult is unable to function on an equal basis in society and that an individual can be easily categorised as either literate or illiterate. Although this has led to prioritisation of primary schooling over adult literacy…
Descriptors: Donors, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
National Commission on Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2008
The National Commission on Adult Literacy proposes creating a new Adult Education and Workforce Skills System with the capacity to effectively serve 20 million adults annually by the year 2020. The primary mission of this new System will be to move out-of-school adults to readiness for postsecondary education and job training and enable their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Training, Labor, Adult Literacy
National Commission on Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2008
America's workforce is facing an education and skills crisis. Among the 30 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States is the only one in which younger adults are less educated than the previous generation. "Unless we invest now to educate and train our workforce, America risks its economic…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Adult Education, Job Training, Adult Literacy
Greenberg, Elizabeth; Dunleavy, Eric; Kutner, Mark – Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2008
Prisons are intended to rehabilitate criminal offenders, as well as to punish and incapacitate them. The education and training systems operating within most prisons are a key component of the rehabilitation mission of prisons. Previous studies have shown a relationship between participation in educational programs and recidivism rates, with…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Job Training
Cuban, Sondra – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
The researcher analysed two women's uses of popular culture texts on the island of Hawai'i. They read these texts in order to learn about, and manage, their health problems. These vernacular texts were different from the institutional texts that were prescribed to them by their doctors, as well as the commercial ones that were in the literacy…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Females, Ethnography, Researchers
Terry, Marion – Educational Research Quarterly, 2008
In 2003, a study of two Canadian adult literacy programs included 37 learners who revealed a variety of reasons for having dropped out of school as teenagers and younger adults. Chief among these were the influences of parents, siblings, and peers both in and out of school. This article considers these research findings, in light of the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Parent Influence
Tett, Lyn; Maclachlan, Kathy – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
This paper explores the discourses of power in adult literacy and numeracy (ALN) teaching and learning that were highlighted through the processes of accessing and gaining the views of ALN learners for a research project on the quality of learning and teaching. It details the problems encountered in gaining access to this group of learners and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Social Psychology
Schleicher, Andreas – International Review of Education, 2008
At a time when governments face the challenges of maintaining competitiveness in a global economy, it is necessary to have high-quality comparative information regarding the fundamental skills of the adult population. Such information can help governments to evaluate policies and design more effective interventions. This article describes a…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Basic Skills
Wrigley, Heide Spruck; Chen, Jing; White, Sheida; Soroui, Jaleh – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2009
This chapter examines the characteristics and performance of adult immigrants and adult English language learners on the National Assessment of Adult Literacy. These factors are related to key social outcomes such as involvement in the labor force, income, and welfare participation, and the data reported can be used in making decisions about…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness, Adult Literacy, Program Development
Hamilton, Mary – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2007
In this paper, the author reflects on some of the complexities involved in theorizing change and the policy process, stimulated by the framing offered by the Learning and Skills Sector (LSS) project and the detailed case studies it presents. Focusing on a period in the development of the LSS that has been characterized by a determined policy…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Policy Formation, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
Bartlett, Lesley – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
This article elaborates the concept of educational projects, a term that signifies consistent constellations of institutions, financial resources, social actors, ideologies, theories of knowledge and attendant pedagogies that shape local cultural practices of schooling. The article demonstrates the utility of the concept of educational projects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, International Education, Ethnography
Feeley, Maggie – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2007
The equality framework developed in the Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin (UCD), provides a useful base for thinking about literacy from an equality perspective. Neo-liberal, critical and situated approaches to literacy have made minimal impact in the Irish context where only 6 per cent of those with unmet literacy needs…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Critical Theory, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
Southwood, Sue; Kafeero, Philly – Adults Learning, 2007
The Quicken Trust has been working in Kabubbu since 2000. In that time it has created a primary school, a health centre and laboratory, teachers' and nurses' housing, community housing, clean water supplies, farming and work initiatives, an adult literacy centre and library, and a secondary school. Over 400 orphaned children are being educated and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Adult Literacy
Anyon, Yolanda; Fernandez, Maria A. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2007
Universities across the nation are expected to contribute to their neighboring communities. Responses to this charge come in many forms: college students volunteering in neighborhood schools, faculty conducting research activities to support local evaluation efforts, and university centers and civic leaders launching major community-development…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Leadership, Service Learning, School Community Relationship
Ghose, Malini – Convergence, 2007
The note discusses some key issues pertaining to gender, literacy and women's empowerment in India. It uses disaggregated data to illustrate the persisting gender disparities with regard to literacy and points out that despite this there is a lack of real political will to address issues of adult literacy. It further draws on data from the…
Descriptors: Females, Empowerment, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy