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Bhola, H. S. – 1981
A two-pronged theory underlying literacy campaigns suggests that (1) the prevailing ideology of a society will determine the objectives of the literacy campaign as well as the language of justification used by the development elite in the promotion of adult literacy; and (2) the ideology, as expressed in the political culture of a society, will…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Capitalism, Comparative Analysis