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Direct linkBoudard, Emmanuel; Jones, Stan – International Journal of Educational Research, 2003
The term "illiterate" that is commonly used to describe someone who cannot read or write is an absolute term, which fails to recognize that those who are deemed "illiterate" are probably in fact "literate" to some degree. The approach taken to define and measure literacy in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) acknowledges the limitation…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Measures (Individuals), Surveys
Download full textGraff, Harvey J.; Jones, Stan; Street, Brian V. – 1997
This document contains two extended papers and one shorter commentary that reflect a continuing debate between two schools of thought on literacy that have been called the "autonomous" and the "sociocultural.""The Persisting Power and Costs of the Literacy Myth" (Harvey J. Graff) argues that current discourse on…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Philosophy, Ethnography
