Literacy And Running Your Life: A Nicaraguan Example  

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Lankshear, Colin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 2 (1991), page 95-111.
Fulltext: Vol. 05, no 2, p 95-111.pdf (1.18MB)

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Amid calls for large scale programmes to address illiteracy among disadvantaged groups in the Third and First Worlds alike, we do well to remember that literacy is 'a two edged sword'. 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. This, as Freire has shown, is partly a matter of addressing consciousness in the process of teaching adults to read and write. In addition, however, there is increasing evidence that literacy assumes empowering force when promoted within a context of policies and programmes for just and democratic development. A case study from rural Nicaragua, set against an account of adult literacy for revolutionary change, is advanced in support of this view.

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