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Download full textAlkema, Anne – Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
This paper outlines the scale of the adult literacy and numeracy issue in New Zealand and describes a policy intervention designed to upskill employees in workplaces to help resolve the issue for them. This is the Workplace Literacy and Numeracy (WLN) Fund, which enables around 7000 employees a year to complete a 25- to 80-hour learning programme,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Job Skills
Direct linkTaylor, Maurice C.; Trumpower, David L.; Purse, Edward R. – International Review of Education, 2015
Workplaces are settings where power, knowledge and self are brought together in a complex social environment which includes various forms of struggle related to identity, agency, socio-cultural norms, political structures and functional practices. The purpose of this article is to uncover how formal and informal work-related learning processes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Employees, Adult Literacy
Dromey, Joe – Learning and Work Institute, 2020
This report explores the links between trade unions and workplace training, and the potential benefits of social partnership in the skills system. The UK is relatively unusual in having no formal role for trade unions in the training system. In most advanced economies, trade unions and employers work alongside government in shaping the skills…
Descriptors: Unions, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
Newbold, Mary – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2016
This research investigates learners' responses to the use of literature as a means of literacy learning in level 2 Functional Skills in English. Data were gathered by way of observation, questionnaire and informal dialogue with learners. Teaching and learning was underpinned by the philosophy of critical pedagogy and was therefore learner-centric.…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Workplace Learning, English Curriculum
OECD Publishing, 2017
Australia's overall performance in the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) ranges from average to very good. However, three million adults, representing one-fifth of the working age population, have low literacy and/or numeracy skills. Building Skills for All in Australia describes the characteristics of the low-skilled and discusses the consequences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Basic Skills, Adults, Adult Literacy
Paccagnella, Marco – OECD Publishing, 2016
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the link between age and proficiency in information-processing skills, based on information drawn from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The data reveal significant age-related differences in proficiencies, strongly suggesting that proficiency tends to "naturally" decline with age. Age…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Surveys, Adults, Age Differences
Taylor, Maurice; Trumpower, David; Pavic, Ivana – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2013
This article reports on a mixed methods study that investigated aspects of formal, non-formal and informal learning for workers and adult high school learners seeking literacy and essential skills. Three key themes emerged from the qualitative data: motivations for participation in various forms of learning; seeking out informal learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Informal Education, Adult Basic Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
Adult language, literacy and numeracy are essential ingredients for greater workforce participation, productivity and social inclusion. Both national and international research demonstrate the relationship between increasing levels of language, literacy and numeracy proficiency and positive outcomes for individuals, as well as for communities and…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Politics of Education
Black, Stephen; Yasukawa, Keiko – International Journal of Training Research, 2011
Australia appears to be in the grip of a "literacy crisis" in workplaces. Media reports and industry/skills organisations are decrying the low literacy and numeracy levels of workers and the negative effects these have on productivity. As a consequence, the Australian government has increased funding for workplace literacy and numeracy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Local Government, Workplace Literacy
Reder, Stephen, Ed.; Bynner, John, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Understanding the origins of poor literacy and numeracy skills in adulthood and how to improve them is of major importance when society places a high premium on proficiency in these basic skills. This edited collection brings together the results of recent longitudinal studies that greatly extend our knowledge of what works in raising skill…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Educational Development, Academic Persistence, Numeracy
Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth, Ed.; Yudelson, Michael, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
The 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2018) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Templeton Landing in Buffalo, New York. This year's EDM conference was highly competitive, with 145 long and short paper submissions. Of these, 23 were accepted as full papers and 37…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Computer Science Education, Program Proposals
Murray, Fiona, Ed. – Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2006
The "literacy.ca" newsletter is a vehicle for literacy workers and supporters to share information, ideas, resources and research on emerging literacy issues. This issue of "literacy.ca" contains the following articles: (1) Riding The Wave: How will the federal election affect progress on a pan-Canadian literacy agenda?; (2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Elections, Politics of Education
Centre for Literacy, 2000
Television has been seen by some as an enemy of literacy and by others as a tool for enhancing literacy. It has been used to arouse public awareness through national campaigns, to instruct in basic skills, and to motivate potential learners to seek education. According to the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), adults with limited literacy…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Adult Literacy, Television, Foreign Countries
