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Direct linkWalter, Pierre – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2004
This ethnographic study employs a gender perspective to understand the motivations of eight women literacy learners participating in a village-based functional literacy programme in rural North-eastern Thailand. Field research took place over six months of periodic residence in a North-eastern Thai village, and involved participant observation,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Functional Literacy, Females, Foreign Countries
Download full textMcGann, Patrick – 1988
By viewing women's literacy within the context of America from the Colonial period until the present, it is clear that men have traditionally shaped and controlled who shall be literate and what shall be viewed as literate, both within and outside the educational system. Women's writing from the Colonial period is virtually non-existent, and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Classroom Environment, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
