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Direct linkO'Brien, Tom – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2013
Heroin users are a stigmatized group of learners on the edge of society, whose struggle for recognition remains largely ignored. Drug treatment in the form of methadone and prescription drugs has only served to further stigmatize and disrespect their rights. Adult education aspires to be a discourse of resistance and a social movement for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recognition (Achievement), Adult Education, Drug Use
Rose, Anthea; Atkin, Chris – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
Family literacy programmes have become increasingly popular with policy-makers as a means of addressing low levels of adult literacy. It is believed that such initiatives will help to address social exclusion and aid greater economic participation by those in deprived communities or from disadvantaged sectors of society. The growing interest in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Family Literacy, Adult Literacy
