Reports on a study of a pre-cooperative (the Sidi Saad pre-cooperative, Province of Tunis) as an environment in which a functional literacy program, integrated with socioeconomic development, was to be developed. (EB)

A functional literacy program is not only an instructional problem but it must involve a social change strategy as well. The methodological problem lies in the integration of literacy with vocational knowledge, of the verbal with the teaching of manual skills, and of the core content with supporting program content. (EB)