Abstract
A quarter-century’s development of a regime that promotes and regulates adult literacy has diminished the space for responsive and relational literacy work. Many institutional processes – in media, transnational policy- making, survey-based knowledge, and governmental regulation – are tied together in this development. Mapping their connections allows a better understanding of this development than does ideological critique.
Keywords
adult literacy, institutional ethnography, policy regime
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Recommended Citation
Darville, R.
(2011).
Unfolding the adult literacy regime.
Adult Education Research Conference.
https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2011/papers/25
Unfolding the adult literacy regime
A quarter-century’s development of a regime that promotes and regulates adult literacy has diminished the space for responsive and relational literacy work. Many institutional processes – in media, transnational policy- making, survey-based knowledge, and governmental regulation – are tied together in this development. Mapping their connections allows a better understanding of this development than does ideological critique.
