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Yasukawa, Keiko; Brown, Tony; Black, Stephen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
Public policy discourses claim that there is a "crisis" in the literacy and numeracy levels of the Australian workforce. In this paper, we propose a methodology for examining this "crisis" from a critical perspective. We draw on findings from an ongoing research project by the authors which investigates production workers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Numeracy, Blue Collar Occupations
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Chodkiewicz, Andrew; Widin, Jacquie; Yasukawa, Keiko – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
Engaging families in school-related programs, such as family literacy programs, has been promoted as an effective strategy to assist students who might otherwise fail to achieve success in school. The authors in this article report on an action research initiative with an urban Australian government community school in a relatively…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Critical Theory, Community Schools, Action Research
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Bryce, Paul; Johnston, Stephen; Yasukawa, Keiko – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2004
Integrating sustainability into an undergraduate engineering program at the University of Technology, Sydney has been a challenging project. The authors of this paper have been participant observers of the integration process. In this paper, they have attempted an analysis of that process, focussing on the dynamics of the network of people and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development