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ERIC Number: EJ596531
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
Literacy Learning and Economic Change.
Brandt, Deborah
Harvard Educational Review, v69 n4 p373-94 Win 1999
Case studies of two women use the concept of sponsor--an agent who supported or hampered their literacy learning. The relationship between literacy learning and economic change is revealed as both women experienced the decline of agriculture ad rise in industrialization and corporate control. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Economic Change, Females, Helping Relationship, Language Acquisition, Oral History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Life History Method