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Direct linkKelly, Beth – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
The aim of this qualitative study is to explore adults' motivation to learn mathematics in the workplace and the role that the trade union education approach promoted in the United Kingdom plays in that motivation. The findings draw on data from 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with adults learning mathematics, organised through their trade…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Workplace Learning, Unions, Foreign Countries
Download full textAdult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit, London (England). – 1993
The six articles in this issue tackle topics that relate to the role and function of numeracy in adult life. "Reading Comprehension in Written Mathematics Problems" (Sue Wareham) examines the levels of reading ability required of numeracy students and offers strategies to help students with limited reading skills. "Can Ordinary…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arithmetic, Basic Skills
National Inst. of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester (England). – 2003
Skills For Life, since 2001 the United Kingdom's national adult basic skills strategy, aims to improve literacy, numeracy, or English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) skills among people over the age of 16. Basic skills programs may be full- or part-time and are delivered in colleges, community venues, neighborhood learning centers, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills
Bove, Francis – 2003
This basic math skills teaching and learning guide contains practical advice and resources for British vocational teachers who have little formal mathematics education training and for beginning teachers. The document has five sections on these topics dealing with numeracy instruction: (1) overview of the basic skill and its application to other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Adult Educators, Adult Students
