Policy making at a distance: a critical perspective on Australia's National Foundation Skills Strategy for Adults
The National Foundation Skills Strategy for Adults launched in 2012 represented the first major national policy in adult literacy and numeracy in Australia for over two decades. The authors argue that the strategy has had the effect of alienating some stakeholders in the field of adult literacy and numeracy, themselves included. In this chapter they seek an understanding of this sense of alienation towards the strategy and the discourse surrounding it. The authors' aim is to examine and explain what is in 'dispute' between how the strategy represents the meanings and values of adult literacy a ... Show more
Authors: Yasukawa, Keiko; Black, Stephen
Published: Rotterdam, Netherlands, Sense Publishers, 2016
Resource type: Book chapter
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