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Human-Animal Relationships in Literacy Education Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Roslyn Appleby
This paper presents a case for the inclusion of human-animal relationships as a focus for literacy education. It outlines the ways in which language is implicated in human alienation from nature in a modern technology-focused life, and discusses the effects of nature-deficit disorder on human well-being. It calls for an ‘entangled pedagogy’ that attends to stories of local wildlife, and points to the
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What we do with words, and what they do with us Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2020-02-01 Ralf St Clair
This is an invited paper based on the keynote presentation that Professor Ralf St Clair made at the 2019 Australian Council for Adult Literacy Conference in Sydney, Australia on 4 October.
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Numeracy as Social Practice: Global and Local Perspectives Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2020-02-01 Keiko Yasukawa, Jeff Evans
Edited by Keiko Yasukawa, Alan Rogers, Kara Jackson and Brian Street Routledge, London and New York, 2018, 260 pages. ISBN 9781138284449
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Hīnātore: Upskilling Māori and Pacific Workplace Learners Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-31 Anne Alkema
'Hinatore: upskilling Maori and Pacific workplace learners' research project investigated the development of employees who undertook literacy and numeracy programmes in their workplaces, during work time. This paper describes the findings from the project in relation to the processes used in the programmes and outcomes for these employees in eight workplaces. It describes ako (teaching and learning
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Teaching University Students to Read and Write Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-31 Russell Daylight, John O'Carroll
Recent government initiatives have required universities to include specific literacy and numeracy targets for the students. The authors – both members of the English discipline at Charles Sturt University – were invited to develop and run a two-semester program for all students studying to become early childhood, primary, and secondary teachers. This article outlines the nature of the two subjects
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Predictors of English Health Literacy among U.S. Hispanic Immigrants: The importance of language, bilingualism and sociolinguistic environment. Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-04-30 Holly E Jacobson,Lauren Hund,Francisco Soto Mas
In the United States, data confirm that Spanish-speaking immigrants are particularly affected by the negative health outcomes associated with low health literacy. Although the literature points to variables such as age, educational background and language, only a few studies have investigated the factors that may influence health literacy in this group. Similarly, the role that bilingualism and/or
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Plurilingualism in teaching and Learning: Complexities across contexts Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-25 Marie Quinn
Book review of Plurilingualism in teaching and Learning: Complexities across contexts, Edited by Julie Choi and Sue Ollerhead, Routledge, New York, 2018, 244 pages, IBSN 978-1-138-22849-8
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Development of intuition in a new currency, the Euro: The Slovak experience Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-25 Jana Kubascikova, Jeff Evans, Hafiz T.A. Khan
Adaptation to an unfamiliar currency is required regularly of international travellers – and also of citizens of countries changing their currency, such as the 19 (to date) Eurozone members. We report on the currency adaptation process in the Slovak Republic during 2008-2011. We analyse its effects on citizens’ development of price intuition in the euro. Our study draws on Hofmann et al.’s (2007) work
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Teaching Strategies that Motivate English Language Adult Literacy Learners to Invest in their Education: A Literature Review Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-18 Deborah Severinsen, Lori Kennedy, Salwa Mohamud
Canadian English language programs have seen a recent increase in enrolment by English as a Second Language adult literacy learners. To date, minimal research has been conducted with these learners, leaving literacy teachers with little guidance. In our literature review we found that, because learners often lose motivation due to their lack of or limited education, building motivation and investment
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Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Resourcefulness in English Language Classrooms: Emerging possibilities through plurilingualism Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2017-12-27 Julie Choi, Ulrike Najar
Reports on refugee and migrant women in Australia show these women have low literacy in their first language, limited English language abilities, and minimal formal schooling. With major funding cuts to the adult migrant education sector and persistent public ‘deficit views’ of immigrant and refugee’s levels of literacy, approaches to teaching and learning in this sector require flexible views of language
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Building health knowledge online: Parents’ online information searching on congenital heart defects Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2017-12-27 Theres Bellander, Zoe Nikolaidou
The study examines online searching as a digital health literacy practice and focuses on parents of children with congenital heart defects. Over the period of four years, we have conducted interviews with couples at different stages of pregnancy or parenthood and have encouraged them to reflect on their literacy practices when receiving a heart defect diagnosis, during the remaining time of their pregnancy
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Beyond Economic Interests: Critical Perspectives on Adult Literacy and Numeracy in a Globalised World Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-12-15 Tannis Atkinson, Nancy S Jackson
This volume reflects the many faces of the adult literacy and numeracy (ALN) field since the introduction, more than two decades ago, of OECD surveys that define and measure ALN as a contribution to economic productivity, efficiency and growth. The book highlights the transition to statistical tools as the only legitimate form of knowledge about literacy and explores a range of alternative visions
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What happened to our community of practice? The early development of Adult Basic Education in NSW through the lens of professional practice theory. Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-12-15 Pamela Osmond
The field of adult basic education had its genesis as a named field of education in the English speaking world in the mid-1970s, based firmly on an underpinning philosophy of humanistic education and a socio-cultural view of literacy. Subsequent decades of its development have involved recurrent and destabilising periods of change with a major and overriding theme being the move away from the humanist
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Adult reading teachers’ beliefs about how less-skilled adult readers can be taught to read. Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-12-15 Janet McHardy, Elaine Chapman
Despite large-scale interventions, significant numbers of adults worldwide continue to have problems with basic literacy, in particular in the area of reading. To be effective, adult reading teachers need expert knowledge at practitioner level. However, practices in adult reading education vary widely, often reflecting the individual beliefs of each teacher about how an adult can learn to read. In
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Write like a visual artist: Tracing the textually mediated art world Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-12-15 Janna Klostermann
This study examines the social organisation of Canada’s art world from the standpoint of practising visual artists. Bringing together theories of literacy and institutional ethnography, the article investigates the literacy practices of visual artists, making visible how artists use written texts to participate in public galleries and in the social and institutional relations of the art world. Drawing
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Predictors of English Health Literacy among U.S. Hispanic Immigrants: The importance of language, bilingualism and sociolinguistic environment Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-03-18 Holly E. Jacobson, Lauren Hund, Francisco Soto Mas
In the United States, data confirm that Spanish-speaking immigrants are particularly affected by the negative health outcomes associated with low health literacy. Although the literature points to variables such as age, educational background and language, only a few studies have investigated the factors that may influence health literacy in this group. Similarly, the role that bilingualism and/or
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Challenging a Statistic: Why should we accept that 60 percent of adult Australians have low health literacy? Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-03-18 Stephen Black
This paper briefly considers Australia’s only national health survey published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2008 which has been widely referenced within the health sector. The main issue discussed is the use of a criterion level (level 3) to determine the point below which nearly 60 percent of Australian adults can be considered to have inadequate health literacy. The argument is
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Workforce Development Rhetoric and the Realities of 21st Century Capitalism Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-03-18 Erik Jacobson
Increasingly, the provision of adult education (including literacy and training programs) is influenced by a rhetoric of workforce development that tasks education with closing a supposed ‘skills gap’ between the skills that workers have and what employers are looking for. This deficit model of education blames adult learners for their own condition, as well as for larger problems in the economy. In
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Vocational Literacy in Mozambique: Historical Development, Current Challenges and Contradictions Literacy and Numeracy Studies Pub Date : 2016-03-18 Oleg Popov, Alzira Manuel
The study analyses the historical development of vocational literacy in basic education and Non-Formal Vocational Education (NFVE) in Mozambique, as well as current challenges and contradictions. The theoretical lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) is employed in the study. Methodologically the study was executed through an analysis of oral, printed and e-resources produced by the main