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- Does educational kinesiology provide cognitive outcomes: and is it accepted by adult literacy and basic education students?
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This study explores the use of educational kinesiology as a teaching technique in adult literacy programs. It presents two perspectives: (1) a theoretical perspective based on a literature review exploring the history and current usage of educational kinesiology; and (2) a practical perspective based on research findings from specific educational kinesiology exercises used by adult literacy students within their study programs and which questions the validity and efficacy of incorporating educational kinesiology into an adult literacy program.
This study explores the use of educational kinesiology as a teaching technique in adult literacy programs. It presents two ... Show Full Abstract
Authors: Campbell, Rees
Date: 1996
Resource type: Report
Series name: Literacy and learning series
Subjects: Literacy; Assessment; Students;
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- How do power relationships, within an adult literacy initial assessment for CES-referred clients, influence the assessment discourse?
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This paper reports on research on power within adult literacy assessment. It is presented in six chapters: chapter one provides an introduction to the research topic; chapter two examines literature in the area of power, discourse, literacy and assessment; chapter three outlines the methodology that was used for the assessments; chapter four describes the data, grouping it around the main themes of institutional power, the client-assessor relationship and the assessment interview discourse; chapter five provides an analysis of the data; and chapter six contains the conclusion and recommendations.
This paper reports on research on power within adult literacy assessment. It is presented in six chapters: chapter one ... Show Full Abstract
Authors: Watts, Maree
Date: 1996
Resource type: Report
Series name: Literacy and learning series
Subjects: Literacy; Assessment; Research;
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- Literacy, adults and diversity
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In 1994, the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia (NLLIA) together with the University of Tasmania's Department of Education collaborated on a research project where scholarships were offered to Tasmanian students (who were all adult language, literacy and numeracy practitioners) to engage in and write up a piece of research in the field of adult language and literacy. This book reports on the eight research reports. They are: How do power relationships, within an adult literacy initial assessment for CES-referred clients, influence the assessment discourse?/ Maree Watts; Which agenda?: the dilemma for ALBE program planners / Ann Brooks; Institutional language and power: a critical analysis of hospital language / Steve Holden; Does educational kinesiology provide cognitive outcomes - and is it accepted by adult literacy and basic education students? / Rees Campbell; How does the government's special intervention program for the unemployed differ from what tutors consider 'best practice' within adult literacy and basic education?: a philosophical enquiry / Fay Forbes; How can language reshape the mathematical knowledge of the adult learner from the informal to the formal? / Toni-Anne Carroll; Diagrams and text: report on recent research, 1994 - 1995 / Stephen Coull.
In 1994, the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia (NLLIA) together with the University of Tasmania's ... Show Full Abstract
Authors: Falk, Ian; Penson, Margaret
Date: 1996
Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia
Resource type: Book
Series name: Literacy and learning series
Subjects: Literacy; Numeracy; Language;
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- Which agenda?: the dilemma for ALBE program planners
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This paper explores some of the factors that impact on the planning of Adult Literacy and Basic Education (ALBE) programs. It considers some of the issues involved in the determination of a program's process and content focusing on the following four areas: (1) past and current ALBE theories; (2) the political framework; (3) the prospective clients' demands; and (4) existing provision structures. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for a program planner.
This paper explores some of the factors that impact on the planning of Adult Literacy and Basic Education (ALBE) programs. ... Show Full Abstract
Authors: Brooks, Ann
Date: 1996
Resource type: Report
Series name: Literacy and learning series
Subjects: Literacy; Assessment; Students;
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- How does the government's special intervention program for the unemployed differ from what tutors consider 'best practice' within adult literacy and basic education?: a philosophical enquiry
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The Special Intervention Program (SIP) is the Australian Government's strategy for implementing its policy of training a workforce for the 21st century. While SIP has raised the profile of Adult Literacy and Basic Education (ALBE), it has also caused the tutors at ALBE to question their place and role. This study investigates what tutors see as differences and possible conflicts. The research, based on a dialogue with ALBE tutors, SIP referral officers from the Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) and SIP students, looked at what the tutors' concerns were, what the students' concerns were, and what the Government's agenda was for setting up SIP.
The Special Intervention Program (SIP) is the Australian Government's strategy for implementing its policy of training a ... Show Full Abstract
Authors: Forbes, Fay
Date: 1996
Resource type: Report
Series name: Literacy and learning series
Subjects: Literacy; Assessment; Students;
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- What are the critical components of a workplace literacy program in a community and health setting?
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This paper describes a workplace literacy program in its embryonic stages in a hospital setting. This program was developed to address the issue of equity in the workplace between operational and professional workers. The paper begins by describing the organisation, its historical base and culture, and previous workplace training. This is followed by reviewing literature on literacy, workplace literacy, literacy skills audits and discourse and power in the worksite. Following on from this literature review, a literacy skills audit was conducted as a method of 'hearing other voices', identifying the literacy tasks embedded in the roles of the workers and isolating any areas of need for inclusion in training curriculums. This skills audit is described in the final section of the paper.
This paper describes a workplace literacy program in its embryonic stages in a hospital setting. This program was developed ... Show Full Abstract
Authors: Hall, Patsy
Date: 1996
Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia; Tasmania
Resource type: Book chapter
Series name: Literacy and learning series
Subjects: Literacy; Research; Industry;
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