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Direct linkTaylor, Nina – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2008
The aim of this paper is to provide a brief critical analysis of the adult literacy curriculum as one element of the Skills for Life Strategy and to consider how it has been used to legitimise a dominant adult literacy policy based on economic and political rationales. The term critical has many meanings. Here it is used to explore how the adult…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Evaluation, Metalinguistics
