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How to Motivate Adults with Low Literacy and Numeracy Skills to Engage and Persist in Learning: A Literature Review of Policy Interventions
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Windisch, Hendrickje Catriona – International Review of Education, 2016
Low basic skills levels of adults are a complex policy problem which has neither straightforward causes nor solutions, and successful interventions are still relatively rare. Tackling serious literacy and numeracy weaknesses among adults is challenging, partly because the task itself is difficult, and partly because even if accomplished…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Literacy, Literature Reviews, Intervention
The Challenge of Establishing Sustainable Workplace "Skills for Life" Provision in the UK: Organisational "Strategies" and Individual "Tactics"
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Waite, Edmund; Evans, Karen; Kersh, Natasha – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
Drawing on longitudinal data from the ESRC-funded "Adult Basic Skills and Workplace learning" project (2003-2008), together with recent findings from research undertaken under the auspices of the LLAKES research centre (Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies), this paper seeks to explore the key factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Sustainability, Longitudinal Studies
Charting a Course for Success: America's Strategy for STEM Education. A Report by the Committee on STEM Education of the National Science & Technology Council
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Executive Office of the President, 2018
Since the founding of the Nation, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have been a source of inspirational discoveries and transformative technological advances, helping the United States develop the world's most competitive economy and preserving peace through strength. The pace of innovation is accelerating globally, and with…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Literacy, Student Diversity, Equal Education
Changing Academic Identities in Changing Academic Workplaces: Learning from Academics' Everyday Professional Writing Practices
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Lea, Mary R.; Stierer, Barry – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
In this article we examine issues of academic identity through the lens of academics' everyday workplace writing, offering a complementary perspective to those already evident in the higher education research literature. Motivated by an interest in the relationship between routine writing and aspects of professional practice, we draw on data from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Literacy, Higher Education, Interviews
Improving Immigrants' Employment Prospects through Work-Focused Language Instruction
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Margie McHugh; A. E. Challinor – Migration Policy Institute, 2011
Immigrants' employment prospects depend on their underlying levels of education and technical skills as well as their ability to communicate as needed in the host-country language. Since basic language courses do not impart the host-country language skills necessary for success in the workplace, many governments on both sides of the Atlantic are…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Employment Potential, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Attainment
Ecologies of Learning: How Culture and Context Impact Outcomes of Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills
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Merrifield, Juliet – Centre for Literacy of Quebec, 2012
Learning always takes place in a particular context and culture, yet educators have tended to focus their attention mainly on the form of learning, its methodology, content and teaching approach. While these can and do affect learning and its results, this paper looks beyond the particulars of the program to explore how the context and culture of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Workplace Literacy, Basic Skills, Context Effect