Information events and environments (including the flyers, posters and electronic announcements to make these happen) are more important than bibliographies and print-dominated programming. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who hasn't learned how to learn. (20 references) (Author/NH)

Describes UNESCO program experiments which relate literacy to the needs of the people in their everyday life. (DM)

Lists the recipients of the first IRA Literacy Award and presents comments made by Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Director-General of UNESCO, on the state of literacy in the world today. (MKM)

Discusses illiteracy in Canada and describes the steps that have been taken to improve this problem at the national, provincial, and local levels. (CHC)

Addresses the literacy problem on American labor pool training, and suggests ways to combat the problem. These include: evaluating written/spoken materials for literacy levels, screening prospective employees through reading comprehension tests, and expanding the role of experimental learning (both simulation and reality training). (Author/JEG)

Discusses the problem of illiteracy among youth and adults in Australia and the country's problems and efforts in assessing literacy. (SH)

Argues that teachers need to be aware of the effect adult illiteracy has in their classrooms. Discusses identifying low-literate parents, what to do next, and ways to support low-literate parents. (SR)

From interviews with 18 low-literate prisoners, the following observations were made: few could function effectively without assistance, which was most likely to come from fellow prisoners; functioning depended on type and importance of literacy tasks to the individual and individual abilities and characteristics. The complexity within this small…

Instead of replacing the older cold war "enemies," with the Sandinistas and Shiite fanatics, the nation should commemorate the new century by declaring war on ignorance, illiteracy, sickness, timidity of spirit, and shallowness of vision. Weaponry funding could instead be used to develop instructional technologies, conquer AIDS, or start…

Discusses a literacy-enhancement program for undereducated university staff members tutored by college students taking a composition course on literacy. Focuses on the essays of one college student to illustrate how the sequence of writing assignments in the course fostered the reading and writing processes of academic literacy. (SR)

Problems in educating women in India include social taboos, dependency, parents' discriminatory attitudes, low social status, early marriage, heavy work load, lack of motivation, and family poverty. Changes in attitudes, laws, and funding are needed to expand opportunities. (SK)

Women acquire knowledge and identity in different ways. The history of women's educational inequities, current state of women's literacy, and methods of literacy programs justify gender-specific programing based on adult learning theories that are focused on construction of experience and perspective transformation. (SK)

Reviews the interconnection of economic, political, and legal structures and their implications for adult education in a global context. Describes adult education's role in alleviating poverty and powerlessness and spurring social transformation by advocating equitable distribution of resources, equal educational opportunity, and peace. (SK)