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Sangjin Ma; Namhoon Kim; Sok An – International Review of Education, 2024
This study examined the association between literacy and quality of life among rural seniors in the Republic of Korea. A sample of rural seniors (N = 1,000) was surveyed by the Korea Rural Economic Institute in 2018, which assessed their literacy levels, their lifelong literacy education status and their quality of life. The authors' analyses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Literacy, Quality of Life
Jacob Chomba Nshimbi; Robert Serpell – International Review of Education, 2023
The main objective of this case study was to use children as models to assist their parents in acquiring literacy with the help of a phone-based literacy game. Eight women in rural Zambia were loaned phones with GraphoGame[TM] a digital literacy game, to use as a resource for literacy learning, with the assistance of their children. The…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Mothers, Literacy, Comparative Analysis
Trudell, Joel; Cheffy, Ian – International Review of Education, 2019
Lifelong learning is an established concept in international education, with the discourse surrounding it implying that it is globally relevant. Nevertheless, lifelong learning takes place in specific local contexts in which features such as language, location and content are distinctive. This raises the question: How is an understanding of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Lifelong Learning, Adults
Trudell, Joel; Cheffy, Ian – International Review of Education, 2017
This article discusses the impact of literacy programmes on those who learned to read and write in their own African languages. It draws on adult learners' reflections on the significance of literacy and numeracy in their everyday lives as evidenced in interviews conducted in 2014 and 2015 in rural sites in five African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Literacy, African Languages, Native Language Instruction
Takayanagi, Taeko – International Review of Education, 2016
This study investigates the activities of a village-based literacy centre in Kenya and explores the benefits of community development activities on women's well-being in Africa. Through the analysis of the stories of two Maasai women who had experienced adult literacy learning, the author discovered that: (1) the literacy instructor had inadequate…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Empowerment, Literacy Education, Informal Education