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Kozol, Jonathan – Learning, 1977
This article describes the successful effort to reduce illiteracy in Cuba by sending young student teachers into the rural areas to teach reading to workers in isolated spots throughout the country. (JD)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy, Improvement Programs
Peer reviewedLankshear, Colin – Language and Education: An International Journal, 1991
If literacy is to increase the autonomy and social standing of previously illiterate persons rather than to domesticate and further subordinate them, reading and writing must be imbued with genuine empowering potential. A case study from rural Nicaragua, set against an account of adult literacy for revolutionary change, is presented. (37…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Case Studies, Economic Change
