Report of the workshop on the planning and implementing of literacy and post-literacy strategies (IIEP/Unesco International Workshop, Madras, India, 14-21 December 1982)
Anonymous
Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education Courier 27: 19-27
1983
Document Number: 234834
The objective of the workshop was to orient senior level personnel, engaged in literacy and post-literacy programmes, in issues relating to methods and techniques of planning and effective implementation of such programmes. It placed particular emphasis on: (a) in depth exchange of experiences and examination of the conditions under which experiences of one country may benefit the other; (b) identification of some of the principal elements for the success of national literacy programmes; (c) improvement of the methodology of planning and administration of national literacy programmes; and (d) operationalization of integration of literacy programmes with development objectives. This report gives an account of the workshop's methodology as well as a synthesis of the major issues debated under the following headings: conceptual framework, organization of planning activities, mobilization of people's participation, evaluation and technical resource development, and articulation of literacy and post-literacy programmes with school and other basic services.