Breaking out of the Package: Educating literacy and numeracy teachers with agency

Breaking out of the Package: Educating literacy and numeracy teachers with agency

What knowledge, skills and dispositions are needed by adult numeracy and literacy teachers to help their learners imagine and build better lives for themselves and sustainable futures for their children and community? What resources can teachers draw on to be able to exercise agency as a group of pr...

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Main Author: Keiko Yasukawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2010-12-01
Series:Literacy and Numeracy Studies
Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/1899
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