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Editorial

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  • This issue’s opening article reports on research on a workplace literacy and numeracy programme for Mauri and Pacific workers in New Zealand

  • The second paper is an invited paper written by Ralf St Clair, based on his keynote address at the 2019 Australian Council for Adult Literacy conference

  • While acknowledging the increasingly narrow skills focus of literacy programs in many countries and the potential dangers for adult educators who work against this trend, St Clair urges literacy educators to work with the learners to help them use language and literacy to express and shape their lives and experiences, rather than limit the learning to what is dictated by policy

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This issue’s opening article reports on research on a workplace literacy and numeracy programme for Mauri and Pacific workers in New Zealand. ISSN 1839-2903 | Published by UTS ePRESS | https://epress. The researchers Anne Alkema, Cain Kerehoma, Nicky Murray and Laloifi Ripley show how this programme created an empowering environment for the workers to develop their literacy and numeracy.

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