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Direct linkKabay, Sarah – Oxford University Press, 2021
Around the world, 250 million children cannot read, write, or perform basic mathematics. They represent almost 40% of all primary school-aged children. This situation has come to be called the "global learning crisis" and it is one of the most critical challenges facing the world today. Work to address this situation depends on how it is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Quality, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Perin, Dolores, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019
This handbook presents a wide range of research on adults who have low literacy skills. It looks at the cognitive, affective, and motivational factors underlying adult literacy; adult literacy in different countries; and the educational approaches being taken to help improve adults' literacy skills. It includes not only adults enrolled in adult…
Descriptors: Guides, Adult Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education
Wolcott, Willa, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
The late Margaret J. Early was a nationally renowned educator in the field of English education and reading, a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English, an author and an editor herself, and the recipient of many awards. The book Reflections on Teaching Literacy: Selected Speeches of Margaret J. Early, edited by Willa Wolcott,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Speeches, English Instruction, Reading Instruction
Chambers, Cynthia M., Ed.; Hasebe-Ludt, Erika, Ed.; Leggo, Carl, Ed.; Sinner, Anita, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a "heart of wisdom" as they struggle with the tensions and complexities of learning and teaching in challenging contemporary circumstances. Contributors write first-person creative non-fiction in a variety of life-writing…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Nonfiction, Creative Writing
Beca, Carlos E.; And Others – 1987
The principal aspects that characterize the illiteracy problem in 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries and the achievements of 22 currently established literacy programs were determined through a 1981 UNESCO study. The purpose of this study was to obtain data useful in the planning of future literacy programs. Section one identifies…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Illiteracy, Literacy, Literacy Education
Alfred, Mary V., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
In a most timely volume addressing many of the connections among current fiscal and employment crises to adult education, Learning for Economic Self-Sufficiency highlights the problems and challenges that low-literate adults encounter in various environments. Moreover, this book presents strategies for addressing the chronic illiteracy among…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Physical Health, Illiteracy, Adult Basic Education
Wagner, Daniel A. – 1992
Taking a global perspective, this yearbook presents an overview and analysis of key issues and trends in the field of international literacy. The book integrates a psychological and cultural approach to advance a new method of analyzing literacy concepts designed to set up linkages between childhood literacy and adult literacy, between literacy…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cultural Context, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
Hauser, Robert M., Ed.; Edley, Christopher F., Jr., Ed.; Koenig, Judith Anderson, Ed.; Elliott, Stuart W., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2005
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a household survey conducted periodically by the Department of Education that evaluates the literacy skills of a sample of adults in the United Stages ages 16 and older. NAAL results are used to characterize adults literacy skills and to inform policy and programmatic decisions. The Committee on…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Evaluation Methods, English, Basic Skills
Kintgen, Eugene R., Ed.; And Others – 1988
This book contains 28 essays that form the core of an advanced course in the theoretical backgrounds of literacy. The book contains the following articles: "The Consequences of Literacy" (Jack Goody and Ian Watt); "Some Psychodynamics of Orality" (Walter Ong); "Implications of Literacy in Traditional China and India"…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Illiteracy, Literacy, Reading Instruction
Nelms, Willie – 1997
This book is a biography of Cora Wilson Stewart, a Rowan County, Kentucky, school superintendent who rose to prominence with the establishment of the Moonlight Schools for adults with low literacy levels in 1911. It presents the details of her Kentucky crusade against illiteracy, then examines the personal part of her life as well as her later…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Biographies, Education
Bhola, H. S. – 1984
Advocating the literacy campaign as the most appropriate and adequate means for dealing with large-scale illiteracy, this book presents eight case studies of national campaigns as examples and illustrations of this approach. The book notes that mass literacy campaigns are not the exclusive province of any particular ideology, but are possible…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Case Studies, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Rassekh, Shapour – 1991
Providing a general view of all of the currents of thought, research, and experiments in the field of literacy worldwide, this annotated bibliography presents abstracts of over 120 books, documents, and articles on the subject of literacy, post-literacy, and adult education. The main message and principal conclusions of each work are included in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
Gozideh, 1986
Based on material received by the International Institute for Adult Literacy Methods during the first half of 1984, this issue contains selected summaries of books, articles in periodicals, and conference and seminar reports published in the field of literacy and adult education. Some of the issues addressed include (1) the role of adult education…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Siljander, Raymond P.; Reina, Jacqueline A.; Siljander, Roger A. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2005
This book investigates the depth of the illiteracy problem in the United States and the rationale and administration of a literacy-learning program. Based on some of the latest reading research, the authors provide a comprehensive up-to-date look at literacy tutoring. Following an introduction to the illiteracy problem, the book focuses on…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Literacy Education, Tutoring, Lesson Plans
Key, Daphne – 1998
This book contends that in the United States, manner of speech and educational background reflect cultural status, and it attempts to prove through interviews with six American women that what is described as illiteracy is in fact shutting down in response to those in positions of power. After an introduction, "Language, Literacy, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Status Comparison, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography
