Beyond Economic Interests : : Critical Perspectives on Adult Literacy and Numeracy in a Globalised World /

Beyond Economic Interests : : Critical Perspectives on Adult Literacy and Numeracy in a Globalised World / / edited by Keiko Yasukawa, Stephen Black.

Over the last two decades, an increasingly economistic discourse has dominated discussions about adult literacy and numeracy. This book provides critiques of, and alternative narratives to the dominant discourse. Authors provide tools and methodologies of critique, including ways of seeing how polic...

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Superior document:International Issues in Adult Education
HerausgeberIn:
Yasukawa, Keiko.
Black, Stephen.
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Series:International Issues in Adult Education
Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Critical Perspectives in Adult Literacy and Numeracy in a Globalised World
  • Part 1: Globalisation, the OECD and the Role of Powerful International Surveys
  • Imagining Literacy: A Sociomaterial Approach
  • Policy Making at a Distance: A Critical Perspective on Australia’s National Foundation Skills Strategy for Adults
  • What to Look for in PIAAC Results: How to Read Reports from International Surveys
  • Part 2: Resistance and Agency in Local Literacies and Numeracies
  • From the Local to the Global: Socialisation into Adult Literacy Practice in the Remote Indigenous Australian Context
  • “Basically, I Need Help”: Responding to Learner Identity in a Skills-Driven ESL Literacy Programme
  • Apprentice Mentoring: A Return to Relationship in Learning
  • “I Can See the Rabbit!”: Perceptions of the Imagined Identity of Foundation Study Students and Its Link to Academic Success
  • Beyond Compliance: Developing a Whole Organisation Approach to Embedding Literacy and Numeracy
  • Museum Literacies: Reading and Writing the Museum
  • Popular Education and Mass Literacy Campaigns: Beyond ‘New Literacy Studies’
  • Part 3: Contesting Dominant Discourses
  • The Significance of Research and Practice in Adult Literacy in the UK
  • The Four Literacies: An Exercise in Public Memory
  • The Radical Statistics Group: Promoting Critical Statistical Literacy for Progressive Social Change
  • Critical Re-Visioning: The Construction of Practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Literacy Campaign. .

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