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OECD Publishing, 2023
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are ushering in a large and rapid technological transformation. Understanding how AI capabilities relate to human skills and how they develop over time is crucial for understanding this process. In 2016, the OECD assessed AI capabilities with the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The present report…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Adults, Reading Tests, Mathematics Tests
Larrotta, Clarena – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This book centralizes the narratives of adult English language learners, teachers, and trainee teachers in the development of a humanistic language pedagogy; their strengths, concerns, and stories inform this practical guide to adult literacy development and English language-culture learning and teaching. The author sets the need to educate the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Milana, Marcella, Ed.; Webb, Sue, Ed.; Holford, John, Ed.; Waller, Richard, Ed.; Jarvis, Peter, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world. Drawing on the multiple heritages that underpin research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Lifelong Learning, Global Approach
Perin, Dolores, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019
This handbook presents a wide range of research on adults who have low literacy skills. It looks at the cognitive, affective, and motivational factors underlying adult literacy; adult literacy in different countries; and the educational approaches being taken to help improve adults' literacy skills. It includes not only adults enrolled in adult…
Descriptors: Guides, Adult Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education
Lesgold, Alan M., Ed.; Welch-Ross, Melissa, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
A high level of literacy in both print and digital media is required for negotiating most aspects of 21st-century life, including supporting a family, education, health, civic participation, and competitiveness in the global economy. Yet, more than 90 million U.S. adults lack adequate literacy. Furthermore, only 38 percent of U.S. 12th graders are…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Teaching Methods, Instructional Development
Lesgold, Alan M., Ed.; Welch-Ross, Melissa, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
Virtually everyone needs a high level of literacy in both print and digital media to negotiate most aspects of 21st century life-succeeding in a competitive job market, supporting a family, navigating health information, and participating in civic activities. Yet, according to a recent survey estimate, more than 90 million adults in the United…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Expertise
Latchem, Colin – SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education, 2018
This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in open and distance non-formal education in developing countries for over more than 20 years. It includes many instructive and inspiring examples of how international agencies such as UNESCO, FAO, WHO, UNICEF, USAID and the Commonwealth of Learning and national providers are using…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Nonformal Education, Developing Nations
Alidou, Hassana, Ed.; Glanz, Christine, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
One of the greatest challenges in education today is to adapt and respond to a linguistically and culturally diverse world, and to combat social disintegration and discrimination. Participatory and collaborative action research represents an empowering and emancipatory approach to this challenge because the "target groups" become…
Descriptors: Action Research, Youth Opportunities, Adult Literacy, Program Improvement
Lesgold, Alan M., Ed.; Welch-Ross, Melissa, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
More than an estimated 90 million adults in the United States lack the literacy skills needed for fully productive and secure lives. The effects of this shortfall are many: Adults with low literacy have lower rates of participation in the labor force and lower earnings when they do have jobs, for example. They are less able to understand and use…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Expertise, Labor Force
The Evolution and Impact of Literacy Campaigns and Programmes, 2000-2014. UIL Research Series: No. 1
Hanemann, Ulrike – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
The paper analyses the status and characteristics of adult literacy campaigns and programmes since 2000. Global trends are analysed in terms of the ten key aspects of the suggested framework for successful literacy campaigns and programmes. Four case studies on major literacy campaigns in Brazil, India, South Africa and Indonesia are used to…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Publicity, Adult Literacy, Global Approach
Pearlmutter, Jane; Nelson, Paul – ALA Editions, 2012
Anyone at the helm of a small public library knows that every little detail counts. But juggling the responsibilities that are part and parcel of the job is far from easy. Finally, here's a handbook that includes everything administrators need to keep a handle on library operations, freeing them up to streamline and improve how the organization…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Public Libraries, Library Services, Budgeting
Donn, Gari, Ed.; Al Manthri, Yahya, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2013
This book brings together academics and postgraduate students, practitioners and Ministry officials all of whom are wedded to developing an understanding of what is happening to education in the broader Middle East. They cover many countries whilst recognising that many more could have been included. In drawing attention to education in Pakistan,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Policy Formation
Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne, Ed.; Holm, Lars, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2012
"Literacy Practices in Transition" explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Educational Trends
Reder, Stephen, Ed.; Bynner, John, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Understanding the origins of poor literacy and numeracy skills in adulthood and how to improve them is of major importance when society places a high premium on proficiency in these basic skills. This edited collection brings together the results of recent longitudinal studies that greatly extend our knowledge of what works in raising skill…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Educational Development, Academic Persistence, Numeracy
Tett, Lyn, Ed.; Hamilton, Mary, Ed.; Hillier, Yvonne, Ed. – Open University Press, 2006
This book explores the social practice of literacy, numeracy and language and its implications for teaching and learning adult basic skills. Leading international experts argue that literacy, numeracy and language are more than just a set of skills or techniques, but are shaped by the social and cultural context within which they are taking place;…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Literacy