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Fearon, Stephanie – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
Adult literacy is a pressing policy issue in Canada. Reports reveal immigrant communities as accounting for a relatively large share of the country's population experiencing low reading, writing, numeracy, and information processing skills. This paper explores how Black immigrant women who are adult literacy learners negotiate and reconfigure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Blacks, Mothers
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Jiang, Tao; Chen, Ji-gen; Fang, Wei – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
Gender, learning achievements, parents' occupational status, social-economic backgrounds, and a few traits of schools affect students' occupational expectations. However, no research had integrated the above factors to investigate the generative mechanism of students' occupational expectations. After combining student-level and school-level PISA…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Occupational Aspiration, Family Influence, Parent Background
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Hadianto, Daris; Damaianti, Vismaia S.; Mulyati, Yeti; Sastromiharjo, Andoyo – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The purpose of this study is to see the role of using multimodal texts based on Indonesian local cultural content to improve the literacy skills of BIPA (Indonesian for Foreign Speakers) learners. The focus of literacy skills in this study is the learner's ability to communicate using the communication culture of Indonesian society as a result of…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Behavior Change, Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Dowling, Sean – TESL-EJ, 2013
Learner-generated content (LGC) has always been produced as part of the learning process; however, it often generally goes no further than the teacher. Research has shown that by exposing LGC to a wider audience, students are motivated to produce work of a higher quality. The process of publishing and sharing LGC also helps students develop key…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Student Developed Materials, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jang, Suh Young; Merriam, Sharan – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2004
Well-educated Korean women are returning to higher education in unprecedented numbers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the motivations of these women for returning to higher education. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 Korean full-time housewives aged 25 to 45 who already had a bachelor's degree and who enrolled as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Homemakers, Females, Lifelong Learning
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1933 includes the annual report from the Commissioner of Education. In the Commissioner's portion of this report, the following topics are covered: (1) Public School Administration; (2) Educational Legislation; (3) Statistics of Education; (4)…
Descriptors: United States History, Public Schools, Educational Administration, Economic Climate