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Numeracy. Viewpoints. A Series of Occasional Papers on Basic Education. Issue No. 1.
Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit, London (England). – 1984
This collection of papers focuses on numeracy education for adults. In a paper entitled "Functional Numeracy," Terry Riley questions the underlying assumptions of functional numeracy and suggests that the term has often been distorted and oversimplified. Margeret Moss, in her paper "The Language of Numeracy," stresses that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Literacy and Second Language Speakers of English. Viewpoints. A Series of Occasional Papers on Basic Education. Issue No. 3.
Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit, London (England). – 1985
This collection of papers focuses on literacy and the special educational needs of speakers of English as a second language (ESL). In a paper entitled "Ethnic Minority Educational Needs in the 1980s," Gurnam Heire examines some of the changes in employment and training that have taken place over the past few years and how these affect the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Basic Skills