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The book provides a historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980's to the present. The main focus is a descriptive analysis of three distinctive schools of literacy: the Freirean-based participatory literacy movement grounded in oppositional politics and grass-roots community activism; the British-based New Literacy Studies that focuses on the ways in which diverse students utilize various literacy practices in their daily lives; and the U.S. federal government's focus on functional literacy linked to a 45-year policy emphasis on workforce readi

Functional literacy --- Adult education and state --- Progressive education --- Progressivism in education --- Education --- State and adult education --- Adult education --- Education and state --- Adult literacy --- Functional illiteracy --- Life skills --- Literacy --- Government policy --- Philosophy --- Sociale agogiek --- Permanente vorming en volwasseneneducatie.

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This publication provides policy guidance in an area that has been given little policy priority until recent years. It brings together key lessons from 17 OECD countries, providing evidence on the strategies in place to improve adults participation in learning. It addresses potential barriers to learning as well as the policies to remedy them. Among these are policies for increasing and promoting the benefits of adult learning to make them transparent and easily recognized. Other policy levers include economic incentives and co-financing mechanisms that can raise the efficiency of adult learning provision, while delivering quality learning that is adapted to adults needs. Finally, policy making can be improved via coordination and coherence in a field that is characterized by a wide variety of stakeholders, including ministries of education and ministries of labor.--Publisher description.

School management --- Adult education. Lifelong learning --- Adult education and state --- Adult education --- Federal aid to adult education --- #SBIB:316.334.1O243 --- Adults, Education of --- Education of adults --- Education --- Continuing education --- Open learning --- State and adult education --- Education and state --- Onderwijsorganisatie: volwassenenvorming --- Federal aid --- Law and legislation --- Finance --- Adult education and state - OECD countries --- Adult education - OECD countries --- Federal aid to adult education - OECD countries