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Grissom, Donita; Nutta, Joyce; Crevecoeur-Bryant, Edwidge; Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2023
Snyder's hope theory depicts hope, through the frame of positive psychology, as a cognitive construct with the perceived sense of goal-directed, pathways, and agency thinking (Snyder et al., 1991). Hope levels have been measured in various countries; however, no research to date focused on Haitians. This study, conducted in Petit-Goâve, Haiti,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Foreign Countries
Ai Miyamoto; Britta Gauly; Anouk Zabal – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Previous research based on large-scale studies consistently suggests that on average, male students tend to have lower literacy compared to their female students during secondary schooling. However, this gender gap in literacy seems to "disappear" during adulthood. Up until today, only a few studies investigated the role of assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
Chimalakonda, Sridhar; Nori, Kesav V. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Despite rapid advances, modeling a variety of instructional designs to support variations in teaching and learning during the design of educational technologies is still an open challenge. In this paper, we propose a patterns based approach for the design of educational technologies to address this challenge. This is in contrast with existing…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Adult Literacy
Fute, Antony; Wan, Xiu-lan; Oubibi, Mohamed – International Review of Education, 2023
Literacy is a fundamental aspect of development and a step towards freedom and liberation from socio-economic constraints, because it enables all citizens to realise their basic right to learning. However, the global efforts which -- according to a 2017 estimate of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) --…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries
International Comparisons of Adult Literacy and Numeracy Skills over Time. Data Point. NCES 2022-005
Mamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
This Data Point summarizes trends in adult literacy and numeracy skills since the 1990s for the United States and for those countries that participated with the United States in all three international adult literacy studies over the past three decades: Canada, Hungary, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Results in this Data Point…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Adults, Foreign Countries
Ephraim Lemmy Nuwagaba; Caesar Kyebakola; John Francis Garuzooka – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2024
Adult literacy provision globally and in Uganda has, over the years, undergone changes because addressing the learning needs of adult learners in a wide range of contexts requires innovative programming. This paper uses the Adult Learning and Education System Building Approach (ALESBA) to analyse the operational environment and institutional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Education
Iles, Vanessa; Cassidy, Lindy; Finch, Jill – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
The Reading Writing Hotline was originally conceived as phone support for viewers of an educational TV series. Celebrating it's 30th anniversary next year, it has evolved to become a national referral service for learners, as well as an information and advisory service for industry and community. It recorded a significant increase in call numbers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Educational Innovation, Educational Television
Grossi, Flávia Cristina Duarte Pôssas; Fonseca, Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
This study analyses how older (mostly 60 years or over) women who are literacy students at Youth and Adult Education Program in a small village of Brazil appropriate school numeracy practices during a class about the discursive genre "label" and the information it conveys. We focus on the students' participation in the discursive…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Females, Adult Literacy, Merchandise Information
Kathy Sanford; Bruno de Oliveira Jayme; Tanya Manning-Lewis – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Literacy as a unified concept is no longer valid or useful for today's complex world, where globally we face many challenges and contradictions. Adult literacy is shifting rapidly, and the human need for visually communicating meaningfully and relationally -- beyond 'reading and writing' -- is vital for addressing wicked problems and difficult…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Multiple Literacies, Social Justice, World Problems
Consent through Art: A Critique of a Visual Method Developed with Peer-Researchers in Southern Nepal
Joanna Morrison; Awantika Priyadarshani; Abriti Arjyal – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
Obtaining informed consent can be challenging during peer research when the boundaries between researcher and participant are blurred. We developed a novel visual consent method with illiterate artists in Nepal who conducted peer interviews in their communities. Artists discussed and sketched images related to ethical principles to create a visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Action Research, Participatory Research
Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2024
This paper explores the phenomenon of premature learner exit from Adult Literacy (Learning) Service (ALS) courses from the perspective of seven ALS tutors working in three Education and Training Boards (ETBs) in Ireland. The findings highlight ALS tutors' insights into the situational, institutional, and dispositional barriers facing ALS students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Student Attrition
Takehiro Usui; Mitsuko Chikasada; Edwin Aloiau – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Some people in Japanese society have been classified as 'invisible' because they could not complete their compulsory elementary school education and have failed to assimilate into mainstream society. The 2010 Japan Census identified about 1.3 people per thousand over 15 years old who had not graduated from elementary school. However, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison, Educationally Disadvantaged
Boughton, Bob – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
In the 1960s and 1970s, mass campaigns were the dominant model of adult literacy provision, especially in countries of the Global South. After a long absence, there is now a revival of international interest in this model. This paper looks back on the earlier history of mass campaigns and the geopolitical reasons for their rejection, to help make…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Models, Political Influences, Geographic Regions
Boughton, Bob; Williamson, Frances; Lin, Sophia; Taylor, Richard; Beetson, Jack; Bartlett, Ben; Anderson, Pat; Morrell, Stephen – International Journal of Training Research, 2022
The prevalence of low to very low adult English literacy levels in First Nations communities in Australia continues to be an issue, despite ten years of government-supported Foundation Skills training provided through the national vocational education and training system. This study examines an innovative First Nations community-controlled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Indigenous Populations, Community Programs
Akintolu, Morakinyo; Letseka, Moeketsi; Olugbara, Cecilia Temilola – Journal of Educators Online, 2023
Numerous projects and programmes for adult literacy have been undertaken in developing countries in the past years, so it comes as no surprise that the fundamental problems and the global statistics on literacy have not changed even slightly in a country like South Africa. The present study examines the elearning readiness of adult facilitators…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Readiness, Adult Literacy, Adult Students