期刊全称 | Beyond Economic Interests | 期刊简称 | Critical Perspective | 影响因子2023 | Keiko Yasukawa,Stephen Black | 视频video | | 发行地址 | This volume provides a much needed critical perspective on the current narratives that reduce adult literacy education to a solution for industries.This work is a timely resource for critical educator | 学科分类 | International Issues in Adult Education | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | 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.. | Pindex | Book 2016 |
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