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Special Supplement: Health Literacy and Adult Basic Education

open access: yesHealth Literacy Research and Practice, 2019
This supplement of HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice seeks to affirm the relevance of adult basic education (ABE) to advancements in the health literacy field.
Maricel G. Santos   +1 more
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Beyond benchmarks: Exploring views of success among adult basic education learners

open access: yesZeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung - Report
Educational policy is built on “benchmarks and measurable ways of being literate” that learners must meet to be considered successful (Compton-Lilly et al. 2012, p. 54).
Shannon Frey
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Addressing the challenges of food security and youth unemployment in South Africa through land reform policies [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Economics, 2016
South Africa’s past policy of apartheid has contributed to some of the socio-economic challenges the country faces today. Some of the challenges include grinding poverty levels, increasing inequality and unemployment among large sections of the ...
Akwasi Arko-Achemfuor
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Socio-economic development through the exploitation of natural resources in rural South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Economics, 2017
South Africa has many developmental challenges but three have been identified as affecting each other. The three challenges are unemployment, poverty and inequality.
Akwasi Arko-Achemfuor
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Problematising adult basic and secondary education in a globalised world. From second chance to school recovery

open access: yesAS: Andragoška Spoznanja, 2017
The article problematises the role Adult Basic and Secondary Education (ABSE) plays in response to global challenges, under the influence of global policy.
Marcella Milana
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Discursive turns from 'Bildung' to managerialism

open access: yesEuropean Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2012
The article focuses on the struggles over ethos in academic adult education tradition that grows from the frameworks of student generations in Finnish adult education.
Karin Filander
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Numeracy—an underestimated domain of adult basic education?

open access: yesZeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung - Report, 2019
In this article, terms and the state of research on adult numeracy are compiled in a systematic way. The findings and theories are selected according to their relation to the German-language discourse of adult education and at the same time embedded in a 
Anke Grotlüschen   +2 more
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Überzeugungen (beliefs) von Kursleitenden in der Erwachsenenbildung: Eine explorative Studie zu Numeralität

open access: yesZeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung - Report, 2019
Zusammenfassung Die Belief-Forschung stellt heute einen integralen Bestandteil erziehungswissenschaftlicher Forschung dar, wobei sie sich kaum der Erwachsenenbildung annimmt. In dieser explorativen Studie werden die mathematischen Vorstellungen (beliefs)
Sonja Beeli-Zimmermann
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Family Health in Adult Education: A Missing Piece of the Health Literacy Puzzle

open access: yesHealth Literacy Research and Practice, 2019
Previous research and interventions define health literacy as an individual-level concept. Although it is necessary to design programs aimed at individual people, not all health decisions are made by patients themselves, and calls have been made to ...
Sara Champlin   +2 more
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Basic education improvement: A case of two High Schools in Tanahu, Nepal.

open access: yesZeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2023
Improving basic education in High School is critical for developing skilled manpower. Two High Schools, Shree Jana Jukta Shai Secondary School and Shree Udaya Secondary School, in Tanahu, Nepal, have recently started their intermediate and technical ...
Durga D. Poudel   +21 more
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