How do power relationships, within an adult literacy initial assessment for CES-referred clients, influence the assessment discourse?
This paper reports on research on power within adult literacy assessment. It is presented in six chapters: chapter one provides an introduction to the research topic; chapter two examines literature in the area of power, discourse, literacy and assessment; chapter three outlines the methodology that was used for the assessments; chapter four describes the data, grouping it around the main themes of institutional power, the client-assessor relationship and the assessment interview discourse; chapter five provides an analysis of the data; and chapter six contains the conclusion and recommendatio ... Show more
Authors: Watts, Maree
Published: Melbourne, Victoria, National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, 1996
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
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