Summary Survey on the Administrative Support Staff in Adult Education in Great Britain

Jacobson, Erik: Adult Basic Education in the Age of New Literacies . 2012

Martin Buber's and Ernst Simon's Concept of Adult Education in Crisis Situations

The role of history in the official self-descriptions of national organizations of adult education

English, Leona M. (Hrsg.): International Encyclopedia of Adult Education. 2005

International large-scale assessments, the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML) and adult education systems

In steady search for optimization: the role of public and private actors in Switzerland’s political economy of adult education

Can competency assessment support struggles for community development and self-determination?

This paper arguments that if competency assessment is to make any contribution as a potentially “liberating” curriculum strategy for struggles of community development and self-determination then it needs to contest the authoritarianism of the national qualification frameworks that have been established in Australia and New Zealand. This article critiques research and policy efforts, in particular for indigenous learners which seek to merely make authoritarian curriculum and assessment structur…

Investigating prison factors related to literacy and numeracy skills of incarcerated adults

Adult readers making sense of picture stories: a contrastive case study