Likando, Gilbert N.2014-06-262014-06-262011Likando, 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.http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1050The print journal is available at the University of Namibia Call No; SCP 370.96881 NERThis 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).enAdult literacydevelopmentempowermentsocial practiceNamibiaArticle