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Direct linkLavender, Peter; Tuckett, Alan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2020
This article reviews the adult literacy campaign in the 1970s in the United Kingdom (UK) and the influence of Paulo Freire's thinking on how we worked. We argue that much adult literacy provision had been designed to 'domesticate' rather than 'liberate'. The mid-1970s 'Right to Read' campaign in the UK rejected this approach (BAS, 1974). The use…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDevereux, W. A. – Convergence An International Journal of Adult Education, 1977
Describes a national program to help local education authorities and volunteer organizations provide literacy education to adults in England, Wales, and Scotland. Included are priorities and needs, grant allocation, structure and staff, recruitment of volunteers, participants, and some problems and potential. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Foreign Countries
Hamilton, Mary; Merrifield, Juliet – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
In this chapter the authors' primary aim is to describe the general workings of the system of adult literacy and learning as it exists in the United Kingdom today. To better illuminate that system, they take a little time delving into its past--that is, showing how it arrived at its current state of operation. A secondary aim is to compare and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy
