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Glushchenko, I. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
The article analyzes the constituent steps and measures of the Soviet campaign to eradicate illiteracy among adults in the 1920s-30s. A comparison of educational and ideological aspects of this campaign demonstrates how closely they were interrelated and how they facilitated the creation of new patterns of cultural behavior. The author shows that…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Guidelines, Alphabets
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Milana, Marcella, Ed.; Webb, Sue, Ed.; Holford, John, Ed.; Waller, Richard, Ed.; Jarvis, Peter, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world. Drawing on the multiple heritages that underpin research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Lifelong Learning, Global Approach
Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training, 2018
This is the thirty-first edition of the Articulation Handbook for British Columbia's public post-secondary institutions. It has been updated for 2018-2019 through the dedicated efforts of the educators who participate in the working and steering committees. Articulation is a dynamic process that will never be completed. It brings order to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Basic Education, Public Colleges, Articulation (Education)
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Takayanagi, Taeko – International Review of Education, 2016
This study investigates the activities of a village-based literacy centre in Kenya and explores the benefits of community development activities on women's well-being in Africa. Through the analysis of the stories of two Maasai women who had experienced adult literacy learning, the author discovered that: (1) the literacy instructor had inadequate…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Empowerment, Literacy Education, Informal Education
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Adelore, Omobola; Itasanmi, Sunday A. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The study reported in this paper shed light into the lessons learned using two ICT tools in adult literacy programmes. The research design adopted was a "descriptive" method. Twenty (20) participants were purposively selected in advanced literacy class from two adult literacy centres (10 participants each for computer treatment and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Correlation
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Ng, Edward; Omariba, D. Walter R. – Health Education Journal, 2014
Background: Immigrants, a fast-growing population in Canada, score below the national average in health literacy, but the reasons behind the low scores are largely unknown. Also, there is a need to understand the long-term impact of immigration by examining health literacy by generational status. Objective: To examine health literacy differentials…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Literacy, Immigrants
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Szwed, Marcin; Ventura, Paulo; Querido, Luis; Cohen, Laurent; Dehaene, Stanislas – Developmental Science, 2012
The acquisition of reading has an extensive impact on the developing brain and leads to enhanced abilities in phonological processing and visual letter perception. Could this expertise also extend to early visual abilities outside the reading domain? Here we studied the performance of illiterate, ex-illiterate and literate adults closely matched…
Descriptors: Reading, Visual Perception, Adults, Illiteracy
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Player, John – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2013
In this article I will use an example of current adult education practice, the Glory and Dismay Football Literacies Programme (GDFLP) to appraise the value of critical discourse analysis (CDA) for adult learners, both individually and collectively, and for adult education practitioners with an interest in developing critical literacy skills. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Discourse Analysis, Critical Literacy, Team Sports
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Binder, Katherine S.; Tighe, Elizabeth; Jiang, Yue; Kaftanski, Katharine; Qi, Cynthia; Ardoin, Scott P. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between prosody, which is the expressive quality of reading out loud, and reading comprehension in adults with low literacy skills compared to skilled readers. All participants read a passage orally, and we extracted prosodic measures from the recordings. We examined pitch changes…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Adults, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension
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Shore, Jane; Sabatini, John; Lentini, Jennifer; Holtzman, Steven; McNeil, Adjua – Reading Psychology, 2015
Fluency is an essential part of skilled reading that has only recently begun to receive its deserved attention. However, programs that meaningfully engage adult learners in fluency training have not been widely explored in research. In this article, the authors describe an evidence-based adult Guided Repeated Reading program developed for…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Oral Reading
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Feng, Shi; Stewart, Janay; Clewley, Danielle; Graesser, Arthur C. – Grantee Submission, 2015
We manipulated three types of short feedback (emotional, epistemic, and neutral) in an intelligent tutoring system designed to help struggling adult readers improve reading comprehension strategies. We conducted our research on college students to eventually compare with the targeted adult population. We also recorded their facial emotions.…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Feedback (Response)
UNICEF, 2021
This report, which has been developed through a partnership between the African Union Commission (AUC) and UNICEF, aims to: (1) track the progress that African nations have made in education, especially in relation to Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) and the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) goals; (2) identify the challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hampf, Franziska; Wiederhold, Simon; Woessmann, Ludger – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
Ample evidence indicates that a person's human capital is important for success on the labor market in terms of both wages and employment prospects. However, unlike the efforts to identify the impact of school attainment on labor-market outcomes, the literature on returns to cognitive skills has not yet provided convincing evidence that the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Human Capital, Labor Market, Income
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Li, Tongyun; von Davier, Matthias; Hancock, Gregory R. – ETS Research Report Series, 2016
This report investigates the prediction of labor force status using observed variables, such as gender, age, and immigrant status, and more importantly, measured skill variables, including literacy proficiency and a categorical rating of educational attainment based on the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), the 2003 Adult Literacy…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Predictor Variables, Gender Differences, Age Differences
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Plante, Jarrad; Truitt, Joshua – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2016
The Volunteer UCF Community Connectors and Community Builders Program provides a connection between students and their community. The goal is to develop meaningful service opportunities for UCF students that contribute measurable results and systemic change through capacity building among adult learners. The ongoing, sustainable service experience…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Mentors, Capacity Building, Internship Programs
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