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Eady, Michelle J. – in education, 2016
Indigenous communities have strengths and wisdom beyond Westernized culture's recognition and understanding. However, there continues to be significant difference in literacy and life skills between Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults. In this article, I reflect on a project that investigated how technology could best support adult literacy…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries
Greene, Moira – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2015
This article describes a Framework that can be used to help bridge the gap between theory and practice in adult learning. The Framework promotes practice informed by three strands important to adult literacy work: social theories of literacy, social-constructivist learning theory and principles of adult learning. The Framework shows how five key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Basic Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Adult Learning
McKoon, Gai; Ratcliff, Roger – Grantee Submission, 2016
Millions of adults in the United States lack the necessary literacy skills for most living wage jobs. For students from adult learning classes, we used a lexical decision task to measure their knowledge of words and we used a decision-making model (Ratcliff's, 1978, diffusion model) to abstract the mechanisms underlying their performance from…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Psycholinguistics, Memory, Decision Making
Doren, Andrew T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Community colleges have multiple missions and one of them is to provide open access services to those seeking to further their education. Community colleges provide remedial courses in math, reading, and writing because many of their students do not meet entrance requirements in these core subjects. However, the usual developmental education track…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Models
Medina, Isabel – Online Submission, 2014
This applied dissertation was designed to identify the characteristics of students enrolled in a GED® preparation program who transitioned to postsecondary programs at the same institution after passing the GED® test. The characteristics studied included age; gender; ethnicity; prematriculation scores in reading, language, and math in the Test of…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Transitional Programs, College Students, Student Characteristics
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Jurmo, Paul – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
The adult basic education field in the United States has experienced an ebb and flow of interest and investment in "worker education" over the past three decades. Although the rhetoric around workplace basic skills tends to focus on such outcomes as productivity and competitiveness, some proponents of worker basic education see it as a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Workplace Learning, Models, Democracy
Gonzalez, Jennifer – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Besieged by poverty, American Indians have historically trailed other minority groups in attending and finishing college. Many lack the literacy skills to succeed in college courses or job-training programs--natural routes to employment. But as the country focuses on increasing college attainment and reducing unemployment, basic education for…
Descriptors: American Indians, Tribally Controlled Education, Adult Basic Education, Models
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Hamilton, David W.; Torraco, Richard J. – Human Resource Development Review, 2013
Adults with limited education and skills--those who lack the education and skills needed for full participation in U.S. culture and economy--are increasing in numbers. However, the knowledge base addressing this population and their educational needs is fragmented across the literature of several disciplines. A comprehensive review and critique of…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Adult Basic Education, Labor Force Development, Basic Skills
Derrick, Jay – Centre for Literacy of Quebec, 2012
This paper attempts to identify some tools to help practioners think about, debate and plan Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills (WLES) programs. Such tools are necessary so that discussions between practitioners aiming to clarify good practice and successful approaches can get beyond mere descriptions of what happened. In order to compare and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Workplace Literacy, Skill Development, Basic Skills
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Hanna, Mary Barbara; Salzman, James A.; Reynolds, Sharon L.; Fergus, Katherine B. – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2010
As professional developers for the Adult Basic Literacy Education (ABLE) system in Ohio, the authors have focused their efforts over the last several years on more actively engaging adult basic education teachers as learners in the professional development they offer. By creating activities that engage teachers in active learning with their adult…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Adult Basic Education
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Miller, Brett; McCardle, Peggy; Hernandez, Ricardo – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Low literacy levels in adult learners pose an educational and public health challenge to practitioners and the scientific community. Increasing demands placed on literacy can limit opportunities in the workplace and access to health-related resources, negatively affecting public health. Current estimates from the National Center for Education…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Public Health, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
McKay, Cassandra L. – Educational Foundations, 2010
Critical pedagogy is an instructional approach to teaching that employs a theoretical framework by which social injustices are critiqued. This type of pedagogy encourages the learner to critique obstructions to the learner's full participation in society, and encourages critical collective action, through the engagement of the learner's…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Education Courses, Community Education, Adult Basic Education
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Jacobson, Erik – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2009
This paper presents the results of a multisite case study of adult basic education in Japan. A key finding of the study is that as part of community building within classrooms, students, teachers, and administrators prioritize human relations and expressions of empathy rather than academic skill development. In contrast to Japanese educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Human Relations, Foreign Countries, Empathy
Lindner, Charles L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current economic crisis, a growing workforce, the increasing lifespan of workers, and demanding, complex jobs have made organizations highly selective in employee recruitment and retention. It is therefore important, to the adult educator, to develop models of learning that better prepare adult learners for the workplace. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Informal Education, Marital Status
Wells, Jaclyn Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates the Community Writing and Education Station (CWEST), a community engagement project that partners a community adult basic literacy program with a university writing lab. The author argues that the community and university partners, the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy (LARA) and the Purdue Writing Lab, offer positive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, School Community Relationship
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