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Download full textCoutinho, Colin – Online Submission, 2008
This paper will review the article entitled, "Shopping {For} Power: How Adult Literacy Learners Negotiate" [EJ756994] by authors Julie L. Ozanne, Natalie Ross Adkins, and Jennifer A. Sandlin. The authors argue that functional literacy in the United States is an important issue and needs to play a larger role in adult literacy programs.…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Adult Literacy, Interviews, Observation
Direct linkMackney, Paul – Adults Learning, 2007
Adult training is critically important: 70 per cent of the 2020 workforce will be adults who have already completed their compulsory education. Yet one in three UK employers currently undertakes no training at all. In the West Midlands the figure is 44 per cent--one million workers. There is a global challenge. Out of 30 countries in the…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy, Vocational Education
