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Direct linkBlack, Stephen; Yasukawa, Keiko; Brown, Tony – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
The dominant discourse on adult literacy and numeracy in Australia sees the federal government, industry, workforce skills agencies and the media speaking with one voice on the "crisis" involving workers' low literacy and numeracy skills. Underpinning this discourse are the Australian results of the international Adult Literacy and Life…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Manufacturing Industry
Brown, Tony; Yasukawa, Keiko; Black, Stephen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2014
A policy consensus has emerged in Australia that there is a workforce literacy and numeracy crisis, similar to many other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. The study informing this paper examined this framing of crisis by interviewing and observing production workers in three manufacturing companies. Each company was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Literacy Education, Numeracy
