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Peer reviewedMaruatona, Tonic – Adult Basic Education, 2002
The effectiveness of adult literacy education in Botswana is limited by centralization, lack of teacher and learner input, and the national literacy campaign's conventional rather than transformative approach. A critical approach that involves learners in planning, uses native languages, and enables teachers to select materials can better achieve…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Centralization, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries
