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Participating, Learning, Changing: Literacy Research in Practice in Alberta.
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Norton, Mary – Adult Learning, 2001
In the Alberta research in practice project, literacy educators initiated participatory approaches with groups of adult learners and conducted research about projects. In the process, they learned about participatory approaches, their practices, and themselves. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Foreign Countries
"It Simply Makes Us Better": Literacy Research-in-Practice in the U.S., Britain, Australia, and Canada.
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Quigley, B. Allan; Norton, Mary – Perspectives: The New York Journal of Adult Learning, 2003
A survey of 11 adult literacy practitioner research networks in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada indicated the following: primary purposes were professional development and outlet for practitioner voice; predominant methods were action and participatory research; 10 had government funding; and challenges included lack of…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Status and Prospects of Educational Research in Quebec. Volumes I and II.
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Pedersen, Eigil D.; And Others – 1971
These two volumes contain a complete report on an inventory of the state of educational research in Quebec, as surveyed in 1968-1969. Four different populations--deans, professors of education, graduate students in education, and educational researchers other than faculties of education--were studied, using a particular instrument designed for the…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Age Differences, College Faculty, Data Collection