7 Outcome 1.5 Results of low adult literacy and numeracy
Description includes a discussion of the impact of low adult literacy and numeracy levels in Aotearoa New Zealand.
I wonder upon whom or what the above 'impact' impacts? Society? Educational institutions? The adults in question?
If literacy and numeracy refer to the ability to, not only manage letters and numbers, a more holistic ability to employ language to think clearly and critically evaluate people's environment, then the effect of low adult literacy and numeracy would lead to a self-perpetuating culture of mediocrity, those non-values spread, as it would be, from parent to child. It would creates a lower dis-empowered class.
Since one can only learn, understand and utilize a second language only as well as one does one's mother tongue, then it is crucial for people from non-English speaking backgrounds to be encouraged to use the language(s) that they were first exposed to. That would lead to an inability to think independently and evaluate. It would mean that people become susceptible to being led, and to situations such as creationists, in the USA, demanding and being granted equal time in the classroom to airing creationist views alongside Darwin's theory of evolution, and the pooh-poohing of sustainability principles.
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I wonder upon whom or what the above 'impact' impacts? Society? Educational institutions? The adults in question?
If literacy and numeracy refer to the ability to, not only manage letters and numbers, a more holistic ability to employ language to think clearly and critically evaluate people's environment, then the effect of low adult literacy and numeracy would lead to a self-perpetuating culture of mediocrity, those non-values spread, as it would be, from parent to child. It would creates a lower dis-empowered class.
Since one can only learn, understand and utilize a second language only as well as one does one's mother tongue, then it is crucial for people from non-English speaking backgrounds to be encouraged to use the language(s) that they were first exposed to. That would lead to an inability to think independently and evaluate. It would mean that people become susceptible to being led, and to situations such as creationists, in the USA, demanding and being granted equal time in the classroom to airing creationist views alongside Darwin's theory of evolution, and the pooh-poohing of sustainability principles.
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