Functional Literacy: Right or Obligation?.

Fitzgerald, Gisela G.

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ERIC Number: EJ306559

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1984

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Functional Literacy: Right or Obligation?

Fitzgerald, Gisela G.

Journal of Reading, v28 n3 p196-99 Dec 1984

Argues that the obligatory nature of functional literacy does not deprive the individual freedom of thought and opinion, and that voluntarism in basic adult education in the United States has greatly contributed to putting the nation at risk and to keeping it a nation at risk. (HOD)

Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship Responsibility, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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