Population education is the educational process which helps people understand the implications of population factors for the well-being of the individual, the family and society. Such education seeks to equip the individual with knowledge, understanding and skills that enable him to assess population situations and trends in terms of the problems…

Because the traditional methods of adult literacy training frequently fail to achieve their objectives and because their implementation on a vast scale would be too costly, this UNESCO quide is presented as an aid in linking literacy campaigns to national development projects and the motivations for change which these might arouse among the rural…