TY - JOUR
T1 - The politics of consumer education materials used in adult literacy classrooms
AU - Sandlin, Jennifer A.
PY - 2000/8
Y1 - 2000/8
N2 - This study examined the consumer education texts used in adult literacy programs to determine how they portray adult literacy learners as consumers and how they depict the consumer market in which learners operate. It was concluded that the hidden curriculum of the texts promotes several ideologies that are disrespectful of adult learners and that work to maintain or reproduce current class inequalities through placing blame for financial failure on learners and ignoring larger social, political, and economic contexts.
AB - This study examined the consumer education texts used in adult literacy programs to determine how they portray adult literacy learners as consumers and how they depict the consumer market in which learners operate. It was concluded that the hidden curriculum of the texts promotes several ideologies that are disrespectful of adult learners and that work to maintain or reproduce current class inequalities through placing blame for financial failure on learners and ignoring larger social, political, and economic contexts.
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U2 - 10.1177/07417130022087053
DO - 10.1177/07417130022087053
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347371778
SN - 0741-7136
VL - 50
SP - 289
EP - 307
JO - Adult Education Quarterly
JF - Adult Education Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -