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Bordia, Anil – Convergence, 1969
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Literacy Education, Mass Instruction, Mass Media
ASPBAE Courier Service, 1982
This issue contains those materials from a seminar on "Campaigning for Literacy" held at Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, on January 4-11, 1982, that concentrate on Asian experience. The "Udaipur Literacy Declaration," presented first, is followed by extracts from the opening addresses and a review of the report, "Campaigning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developing Nations

Omolewa, Michael – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1980
The history of the literacy campaigns in Nigeria is the story of attempts made to focus on the importance of education outside the school walls and to make it a vehicle of social, political, and economic change. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Colonialism, Developing Nations, Dropouts
White, Robert A. – Media in Education and Development, 1983
Latin American radio schools have built an organization to provide a common educational policy and services of teacher training, research, and publication. Characteristics of radio school systems are outlined, and the development and formation of ALER (Latin American Association for Radiophonic Education) are discussed. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Radio, Instructional Innovation, International Organizations
Clarke, R. F. – 1968
The Department of Extra-Mural Studies of Makerere University College, Uganda, experimented with developing correspondence courses in several subjects which were published in the weekly newspaper "The People" during 1967. Three 30-week courses (Communication, Elements of Government, and Economics) were included in a special supplement to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Course Evaluation, Course Organization

Milkias, Paulos – Journal of Educational Thought, 1980
The author defines the tenets of "Zemecha," Ethiopia's radical education model, adopted in 1974. He asserts that the philosophy, the general mobilization, and the successful campaign of the "Zemecha" constitute a revolution in microcosm which sets a good example for the further advancement of the developing world. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Adults, Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Philosophy
Shah, S. Y. – 1989
In Bihar, India, the number of illiterate people has increased during the last 5 decades despite the rise in the percentage of literacy. Reasons are lack of encouragement by the upper classes for education of the masses, lack of unity among lower classes to demand education as a matter of right, and a low base of development. The Mass Literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Literacy Work, 1978
India's national adult education program is being planned to bring literacy to its 310 million adult illiterates. The first stage is projected to cover 100 million persons in the 15-35 age group by 1983-84. Problems include motivating institutions and individuals to participate and providing for adequate funding. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Economically Disadvantaged
Fagen, Richard R. – 1969
Cuba has experienced drastic social, economic, and political change since 1959. This book examines and analyses three important programs of Castro's regime which incorporate some of the distinctive features of the entire Cuban experience political socialization and cultural change; the literacy campaign of 1961, which was perhaps the most…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Communism, Developing Nations
Ministry of Education, New Delhi (India). – 1966
AN EFFECTIVE PROGRAM OF ADULT EDUCATION IN INDIA SHOULD PROVIDE FOR THE RAPID ELIMINATION OF ILLITERACY BY MEANS OF MASS EDUCATION AND ATTENTION TO WOMEN, INDUSTRIAL WORKERS, AND OTHER SPECIAL GROUPS, PROFESSIONAL, VOCATIONAL, AND OTHER FORMS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION, NATIONALLY COORDINATED PROGRAMS OF CORRESPONDENCE STUDY, A NATIONWIDE LIBRARY…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Audiovisual Aids