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Ten Years of Adult Literacy Policy and Practice in Canada: Literacy Policy Tensions and Workarounds

Language & literacy (Kingston, Ont.), 2015-01, Vol.17 (2), p.4-21 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 2015 ;2015. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 1496-0974 ;EISSN: 1496-0974 ;DOI: 10.20360/G2WK59

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  • Title:
    Ten Years of Adult Literacy Policy and Practice in Canada: Literacy Policy Tensions and Workarounds
  • Author: Smythe, Suzanne
  • Subjects: Accountability ; Adult Learning ; Adult literacy ; Education ; Learning ; Literacy Education ; Literacy programs ; Repair
  • Is Part Of: Language & literacy (Kingston, Ont.), 2015-01, Vol.17 (2), p.4-21
  • Description: The years 2003 – 2013 marked a coming-of-age in the adult literacy field in Canada, as it reconciled the politics of international literacy surveys and their accountability regimes with the actualities of literacy work among people caught in the nets of neoliberal economics. The concepts of policy networks, powerful literacies and workarounds are used to capture how educators attempt to escape or repair the effects of standardized accountability regimes to create new networks of adult literacy practice that reflect local learning needs and interests. The nexus of this struggle suggests consequences for the work of all educators within an emerging ‘new precariat’ and downgrading of public education spaces.
  • Publisher: Toronto: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1496-0974
    EISSN: 1496-0974
    DOI: 10.20360/G2WK59
  • Source: ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
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