Conceptualizing the benefits of adult literacy education in Namibia: A case of the Caprivi Region
| dc.contributor.author | Likando, Gilbert N. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-26T14:24:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-06-26T14:24:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description | The print journal is available at the University of Namibia Call No; SCP 370.96881 NER | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This article aims to examine how adult literacy learners and policy makers conceptualise the benefits derived from adult literacy leaning in Namibia, using the Caprivi region as a case study to understand how community’s needs can be addressed through adult literacy. Both qualitative and quantitative designs were used in the process of data collection and analysis. A stratified sample of 100 adult literacy learners and purposive sample of five policy makers participated in the study. The findings revealed that there is a narrow conception of the benefits derived from adult literacy as participants conceived literacy as a neutral skill, other than a social practice embedded in socially constructed epistemological principles. The article concludes by making recommendation that due to this narrow conception of the benefits derived from adult literacy learning, there is a need to revisit the relationship between policy, practice and outcomes in the exiting National Literacy Programme in Namibia (NLPN). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Likando, S. (2011). Conceptualizing the Benefits of Adult Literacy Education in Namibia: A case of the Caprivi Region .NERA Journal A Journal for the Namibian Educational Research Association Volume: 11 Issue: 01, 121-139. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1050 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Namibian Educational Research Association (NERA) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adult literacy | en_US |
| dc.subject | development | en_US |
| dc.subject | empowerment | en_US |
| dc.subject | social practice | en_US |
| dc.subject | Namibia | |
| dc.title | Conceptualizing the benefits of adult literacy education in Namibia: A case of the Caprivi Region | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |