Adult Education Projects Sponsored by Negro College Fraternities and Sororities

1945 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Cannon Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Education Projects

Confronting power: how can we transform political education?

Soundings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (72) ◽  
pp. 90-104
Author(s):  
Ellen Moran & Taya Williams ◽  
Farzana Khan ◽  
Sharon Clancy ◽  
Sasha Josette
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Political Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Education Projects

Five people involved in political education projects look at ways of creating approaches to political education that can assist in the development of a culturally inclusive, participatory and democratic left politics. Transforming political education means confronting issues of power within the left itself, as well as an ongoing reckoning with issues of class and race both inside and outside the left. It also means re-booting the radical tradition of adult education, and working together to develop new and better ways of organising, convening and building solidarities. Contributors draw on their experiences with ACORN, Voices that Shake!, Platform, Adult Education 100 and The World Transformed.

Understanding functional illiteracy from a policy, adult education, and cognition point of view: Towards a joint referent framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Bulajić ◽  
Miomir Despotović ◽  
Thomas Lachmann
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Functional Illiteracy ◽  
Scale Levels ◽  
Components Of Reading ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of a functional literacy construct and the rediscovery of illiteracy in industrialized countries during the second half of the 20th century. It offers a short explanation of how the construct evolved over time. In addition, it explores how functional (il)literacy is conceived differently by research discourses of cognitive and neural studies, on the one hand, and by prescriptive and normative international policy documents and adult education, on the other hand. Furthermore, it analyses how literacy skills surveys such as the Level One Study (leo.) or the PIAAC may help to bridge the gap between cognitive and more practical and educational approaches to literacy, the goal being to place the functional illiteracy (FI) construct within its existing scale levels. It also sheds more light on the way in which FI can be perceived in terms of different cognitive processes and underlying components of reading. By building on the previous work of other authors and previous definitions, the article brings together different views of FI and offers a perspective for a needed operational definition of the concept, which would be an appropriate reference point for future educational, political, and scientific utilization.

How are we doing? An inquiry guide for adult education programs

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Bingman ◽  
◽  
Olga Ebert
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Education Programs

How Teachers Change: A Study of Professional Development in Adult Education: A NCSALL Research Brief

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristine Smith ◽  
◽  
Judy Hofer ◽  
Marilyn Gillespie ◽  
Marla Solomon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Adult Education
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