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Blair, Susan M. – 1978
A functional reading program, as distinct from the standard middle school reading program, specifically ensures that all students will acquire the reading skills necessary for survival in our society. Survival reading behaviors to be achieved include the ability to read labels on packages, to locate references in a newspaper, or to translate…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading
The Struggle against Illiteracy: Policies, Strategies and Emerging Operational Action for the 1990s.
International Bureau of Education, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1990
This document summarizes the replies received by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) member states in preparation for the International Conference on Education planned for September 1990. The report is organized in two parts. Part A summarizes the responses received on the topic of "renewed policies…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Educational Needs
Bhola, H. S. – 1990
Human survival means more than purely physical survival. Human beings, because of language, also have a cultural nature that must survive. In today's world, all speak, but more than one-fourth of the world's people--and more than half in developing nations--do not have the uniquely human capacity of reading and writing. The diffusion of literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Adiseshiah, Malcolm S. – 1990
There is a close connection between illiteracy and poverty at all levels--global, national, and subnational; the countries with the lowest levels of literacy are also the poorest economically. Poverty breeds illiteracy by forcing children to drop out of school to work, and these illiterate people are forced to stay on the lowest levels of the work…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Policy
Henderson, Joe L. – 1993
The United States lacks uniform popular definitions of "literacy," remediations, or consensus for national standards. Factors beyond the control of educational and political structures continually modify and dominate discussions of illiteracy and strategies of remediation. In most advanced cultures, alienation and functional illiteracy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Competence
International Literacy Year Secretariat, Canberra (Australia). – 1989
The first of two papers that comprise this document introduces Australia's response to 1990 as the United Nations (UN) International Literacy Year (ILY). The second paper sets policy directions for Australia's Literacy Year program. The first paper contains the six UN objectives for the year (to increase government action to combat illiteracy,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Levine, Kenneth – 1990
The advent of the "information age," and the electronic communication technologies that are part of it, was supposed to replace print. However, this has not been the case, as the amount of print materials being produced and read has increased along with the electronic equipment. Far from replacing established media and communication…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations