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Direct linkLavender, Peter; Tuckett, Alan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2020
This article reviews the adult literacy campaign in the 1970s in the United Kingdom (UK) and the influence of Paulo Freire's thinking on how we worked. We argue that much adult literacy provision had been designed to 'domesticate' rather than 'liberate'. The mid-1970s 'Right to Read' campaign in the UK rejected this approach (BAS, 1974). The use…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2014
Different technologies have been used for decades to support adult education and learning. These include radio, television and audio and video cassettes. More recently digital ICTs such as computers, tablets, e-books, and mobile technology have spread at great speed and also found their way into the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Videoconferencing
US Agency for International Development, 2006
Literacy is power--the power to improve one's life and shape one's community. All people should know how to read and write, yet 771 million people (18 percent of the world's population) are illiterate. The programs described in this booklet address this challenge. They are samples of a few of the many hundreds of excellent programs around the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Program Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Family Literacy
Peer reviewedCairns, John – Convergence, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Programs, National Programs
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1975
The Brazilian Literacy Movement (MOBRAL-El Movimento Brasileno de Alfabetizacion de Adultos) is discussed in terms of its legal and conceptual bases, organization, participants, technical aspects, and effectiveness. Established by law December 15, 1967 to lower the illiteracy rate in Brazil by improving educational opportunities for the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
