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Volume 66, Issue 2-3

June 2020

Special issue on Literacy and numeracy: Global and comparative perspectives

Issue Editors:

Anke Grotlüschen,
Richard Desjardins,
Huacong Liu

18 articles in this issue

Literacy and numeracy: Global and comparative perspectives
Anke Grotlüschen
Richard Desjardins
Huacong Liu
Editorial Open access 12 August 2020 Pages: 127 - 137
Prophets, saviours and saints: Symbolic governance and the rise of a transnational metrological field
Sotiria Grek
Original Paper Open access 26 June 2020 Pages: 139 - 166
Doing competence: On the performativity of literacy and numeracy from a post-structural viewpoint
Lisanne Heilmann
Original Paper Open access 25 May 2020 Pages: 167 - 182
Evolution of adult numeracy from quantitative literacy to numeracy: Lessons learned from international assessments
Dave Tout
Original Paper 29 April 2020 Pages: 183 - 209
Proficiency level descriptors for low reading proficiency: An integrative process model
Tabea Durda
Cordula Artelt
Alexandra Wicht
Original Paper Open access 30 April 2020 Pages: 211 - 233
International assessment of low reading proficiency in the adult population: A question of components or lower rungs?
Anke Grotlüschen
Barbara Nienkemper
Caroline Duncker-Euringer
Original Paper Open access 02 April 2020 Pages: 235 - 265
Practice makes perfect: Practice engagement theory and the development of adult literacy and numeracy proficiency
Stephen Reder
Britta Gauly
Clemens Lechner
Original Paper Open access 24 April 2020 Pages: 267 - 288
Micro and macro drivers affecting adult literacy proficiency profiles across countries
Richard Desjardins
Original Paper 06 June 2020 Pages: 289 - 340
It’s not what you know but where you come from: Cognitive skills, job autonomy and latent discrimination of ethnic minorities in Israel
Sabina Lissitsa
Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin
Original Paper 12 February 2020 Pages: 341 - 362
Exploring adult basic education and training as a transformative learning space for alienated out-of-school youth in South Africa
Doria Daniels
Original Paper 30 July 2020 Pages: 363 - 385
Abilities in the blind spot of testing regimes: Eliciting the benefits and the limitations of participatory research approaches for numeracy in adult basic education
Wiebke Curdt
Silke Schreiber-Barsch
Original Paper Open access 05 August 2020 Pages: 387 - 413
Language policy and political issues in education
Birgit Brock-Utne
Book Review 05 February 2020 Pages: 415 - 418
The creative underclass: Youth, race and the gentrifying city
Darlene E. Clover
Book Review 31 January 2020 Pages: 419 - 421
The Wiley handbook of Paulo Freire
Heinz-Peter Gerhardt
Book Review 16 March 2020 Pages: 423 - 430
International aid to education: Power dynamics in an era of partnership
Valérie Jean
Book Review 30 April 2020 Pages: 431 - 433
Two books about power: A comparative review
Alan Rogers
Book Review 25 April 2020 Pages: 435 - 440
The charisma machine: The life, death, and legacy of one laptop per child
Hany Zayed
Book Review 28 April 2020 Pages: 441 - 444
Perspectives on educational practice around the world
Daniel H. Jarvis
Book Review 29 April 2020 Pages: 445 - 448