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Direct linkHamilton, Mary; Pitt, Kathy – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
This paper explores the ways in which policy discourses have constructed rationales for addressing adult literacy over the last 50 years. In particular, we examine how policy positions the literacy learner as citizen within discourses of rights and equity. Taking the case of the UK, we compare two key documents produced at different historical…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System, Discourse Analysis, Adult Learning, Social Isolation
Hamilton, Mary; Pitt, Kathy – Reading Research Quarterly, 2011
This article addresses the question, How do changes in policy discourses shape public representations of literacy learners and the goals of adult literacy education? It examines specifically how the agency of adult literacy learners is constructed. We carry out a critical discourse analysis of two key adult literacy policy documents from the U.K.:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Criticism
