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Bridwell, Sandra D. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
Marginalized adults have limited access to learning experiences that prioritize reflection and discourse, both considered preconditions in the Mezirow-informed field of transformative learning (TL). Using narrative analysis of a staff focus group and participant interviews over a 1-year learning journey, this study shows how a literacy program in…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Females, At Risk Persons, Transformative Learning
Hughes, Bob; Knighton, Christine – Adult Literacy Education, 2020
As the largest funder of adult basic education (ABE) in the nation, providing over $600 million through its Basic Grants to States (U.S. Department of Education, 2019), the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) drives ABE policies and practices. In a review of the announcement on Title II, the phrase "transition to" is repeated…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Adult Literacy
Guido Schwerdt; Simon Wiederhold; T. Scott Murray – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2020
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to replicate the IALS-based analysis by Coulombe, Tremblay and Marchand (2004) as well as Coulombe and Tremblay (2006) based on more recent and more comprehensive data on the literacy skills of the adult population. Results from panel estimations over the period 1970-2010…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Literacy, Economic Development, Correlation
Post, David – International Review of Education, 2016
Understandings of "literacy" broadened after the United Nations Development Decade of the 1960s. The corresponding research into the benefits of literacy also widened its focus beyond economic growth. The effects of adult literacy and its correlates appeared diffuse with the rise of New Literacy Studies, and the scholarship on…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Sustainable Development, Literacy Education, Educational Benefits
Einarson, Inga; Miller, Christine; Rodgerson, Devi; Lacerenza, Lea; Lovett, Maureen W.; Greenberg, Daphne – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
Teaching reading to adults who struggle with literacy learning is a difficult task, and there is a paucity of evidence-based programming designed especially for them. Three research teachers describe their experiences while teaching an evidence-based reading program to adult literacy students. This article provides an overview of the program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Research and Development, Program Effectiveness
Learning and Work Institute, 2021
Basic skills -- including literacy, numeracy, ESOL and digital skills -- are key to support adults' life chances and the need to invest in them is increasing. Investing in higher level and technical skills is important for economic recovery and future prosperity. But a sound base of basic skills are both essential in their own right and provide…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Adult Literacy, Numeracy
Mamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
Using the data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), this Data Point summarizes the number of U.S. adults with low levels of English literacy and describes how they differ by nativity status and race/ethnicity. PIAAC is a large-scale international study of working-age adults (ages 16-65) that assesses…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, English, Racial Differences
Larrotta, Clarena – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This book centralizes the narratives of adult English language learners, teachers, and trainee teachers in the development of a humanistic language pedagogy; their strengths, concerns, and stories inform this practical guide to adult literacy development and English language-culture learning and teaching. The author sets the need to educate the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lavender, Peter; Tuckett, Alan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2020
This article reviews the adult literacy campaign in the 1970s in the United Kingdom (UK) and the influence of Paulo Freire's thinking on how we worked. We argue that much adult literacy provision had been designed to 'domesticate' rather than 'liberate'. The mid-1970s 'Right to Read' campaign in the UK rejected this approach (BAS, 1974). The use…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Black, Stephen – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
This paper features the first-hand 'lived' experiences of one current university researcher on how social class across his lifelong educational journey has impacted his political dispositions. Written in an autobiographical style, the paper examines four successive life phases, beginning with working-class life in East London in the 1950s, failure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Social Class, Political Issues
Maleki, Mohammad Naeim; Rogers, Alan; Maleki, Fariha – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
This paper argues that part-time adult literacy facilitators (ALFs), who are often employed in large numbers, have the potential to become agents for a wider approach to development, especially through involvement with the adult learning targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Drawing on international ethnographic-style research into…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Profiles, Facilitators (Individuals)
Aitchison, John; McKay, Veronica – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2021
This article is based on our two narratives through which we explore how Freirean thought had an impact on our respective praxis as academic activists in apartheid South Africa. We reflect specifically on the influence the work of Freire had on informing and advancing our respective struggles against apartheid education. This article therefore…
Descriptors: Activism, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy
Stein, Sondra Gayle – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This chapter describes how PIAAC's concept of competency-in-use can support literacy policy and practice focused on adult learners' real needs.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Competence, International Assessment
Ade-Ojo, Gordon; Duckworth, Vicky – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
The broad aim of this paper is to track the evolution of adult literacy policy in the UK across three decades, highlighting convergences between policy phases and the promotion of democratic learning spaces. It is anchored onto the argument that, although it is generally accepted that democratic learning spaces are perceived as beneficial to adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Educational Policy, Democracy
Sichula, Noah Kenny; Genis, Gerhard – International Review of Education, 2019
In Zambia, adult literacy education is mainly provided in the form of non-formal literacy classes, with a general emphasis on the economic purpose of alleviating poverty. The aim is to increase the number of skilled citizens who are literate. Exploring (1) the pedagogical practices used in this context and (2) facilitators' choices of certain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Nonformal Education, Adult Education