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Characterization of the extent of a large outbreak of Legionnairesâ disease by serological assays
A boundary-crossing approach to support studentsâ integration of statistical and work-related knowledge
An inferentialist perspective on the coordination of actions and reasons involved in making a statistical inference
Critical perspectives on adultsâ mathematics education
Adults' mathematics education (AME) as a field of study and practice displays a broad range of settings for teaching and learning, and for research. At the same time, its activities develop in a dynamic context of globalization, competition, and social insecurity. AME is faced with the same struggle for its justification, between humanistic and human capital goals of education, that adult education and lifelong education have been facing over the last half-century. This struggle is reflected in AME practice, research and policy. In this chapter, we formulate critical perspectives for examining AME in these three dimensions with a view to helping ourselves and others to clarify and act in crucial areas. Thus, we examine multiple and contested meanings of key terms like numeracy, and how definitions vary depending on whether they seek to foreground the individual learnersâ needs or particular economic imperatives (for example, labour market needs). We illuminate how such variable definitions are experienced by AME learners and practitioners, and how they lead us to problematize ideas such as âthe transfer of learningâ of mathematics, for example, from school to work, and from formal to non-formal or informal learning situations. It is timely now, when a new international survey of adultsâ skills, the OECD-sponsored Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is being conducted, to question what these surveys can tell us for the development of AME as a field, and what alternative questions we need to be pursuing independently
âHarder than other lessons but goodâ: the effect of colleague collaboration on secondary English pupil engagement
Antibodies to meningococcal class 1 outer-membrane protein and its variable regions in patients with systemic meningococcal disease
The infant rat model adapted to evaluate human sera for protective immunity to group B meningococci
Functional and Specific Antibody Responses in Adult Volunteers in New Zealand Who Were Given One of Two Different Meningococcal Serogroup B Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccines
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