Basic and Language Education for Adults with Low Literacy Skills
Summary
The aim of the IRN is to encourage an international exchange of knowledge, experiences, and expertise in research and practices in the field of basic and language education for adults with low literacy skills. The IRN will refer to a broad understanding of literacy, including reading, writing, oral language, numeracy, digital skills, financial literacy, and health literacy.
The research questions to be addressed are:
(a) What are the needs of adults with low literacy skills?
(b) How could literacy skills be improved in adulthood?
Studies addressing these questions from different perspectives and from around the world will be reviewed in a research synthesis and discussed in virtual meetings. The IRN will be initiated by researchers from different geographical regions (Australia, Europe, North America and South Africa). Additional researchers, emerging scholars, students and practitioners in the field will be invited to join the network as active participants.
Conveners
Irit Bar Kochva
German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) –
Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning, Bonn.
Bar-kochva@die-bonn.de
Daphne Greenberg
Distinguished University Professor in Educational Psychology;
Director of the Adult Literacy Research Center in the College of Education & Human Development
The Adult Literacy Research Center in the College of Education & Human Development,
Georgia State University
dgreenberg@gsu.edu
Reports
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