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Goos, Merrilyn; Prendergast, Mark; O'Meara, Niamh; O'Sullivan, Kathy – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
This paper revisits and reanalyses data from a study carried out in the further education and training sector in the Republic of Ireland to investigate (1) how adults access and participate in numeracy courses and (2) how adult numeracy provision might support active citizenship. We analysed 45 interviews with adult education providers, adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Adult Education, Numeracy
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O'Sullivan, Kathy; O'Meara, Niamh; Goos, Merrilyn; Conway, Paul – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
Our everyday lives have been transformed in 2020. Key features of this transformation have been the significance of COVID-related numeracy in our everyday lives and the realisation of the story it might tell about lives, health and death. In recent years, governments and educators around the world have been advocating for numeracy as an essential…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Numeracy, Misconceptions