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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yasukawa, Keiko, Editor.

Black, Stephen, Editor.

Series:

International Issues in Adult Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

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 policies in the countries of focus come to be captured almost completely by the interests of business and industry, as well as how to critically interpret the data that policy makers use to justify their priorities. But adult literacy and numeracy practitioners and learners find spaces and places to pursue learning that matters for the lived experiences of adults and their communities. Beyond Economic Interests presents the struggles and achievements of practitioners and learners that lead the readers of the book to critically appreciate that a counter narrative to the purely economistic discourse of adult literacy and numeracy is much needed, and possible.

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. .

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789463004442

9463004440

OCLC:

938891015