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New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education

Volume 2013, Issue 138
Research Article

Literacy and UNESCO: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives†

Daniel Wagner

UNESCO chair in learning and literacy and professor of education, University of Pennsylvania

Director of the International Literacy Institute and of the University of Pennsylvania's International Educational Development Program (IEDP) in graduate study

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First published: 05 June 2013
https://doi.org/10.1002/ace.20050
Cited by: 1
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This paper was originally presented in the panel: “Re‐Imagining UNESCO: Past, Present and Future” at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (Chicago, Illinois, March 4, 2010). Parts of the paper were also adapted from Wagner (2011).

Abstract

This chapter addresses Themes 2 & 3 of the Hamburg Declaration: Improving the conditions and quality of adult learning and Ensuring the universal right to literacy and basic education.

Number of times cited: 1

  • Volker Lenhart, Erwachsenenbildung und Alphabetisierung in Entwicklungsländern, Handbuch Erwachsenenbildung/Weiterbildung, 10.1007/978-3-531-20001-9_66-1, (1-24), (2016).
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