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Literacy and Power (Aid and Development Set) - Softcover

Archer, David; Costello, Patrick

 
9780415845663: Literacy and Power (Aid and Development Set)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415845661 ISBN 13: 9780415845663
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

The often bloody struggles of Central America have dominated news reports for a long time. Behind the headlines lies an enormous population of the desperately poor, and it is axiomatic that they are rendered even more powerless by widespread illiteracy.
What actually counts as literacy is less clear. Archer and Costello describe some of the most exciting and innovative programmes designed to overcome the problem and how, as they worked with many of them, they discovered how varied and controversial they are. El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia and Guatemala are all included, and for each country the authors have provided a thrilling account of the lives and circumstances of the people who both teach and learn as well as describing the varied forms that literacy teaching, even literacy itself, can take.

This book is not only about literacy, but is also a guide to the societies of one of the world's most troubled regions.

Originally published in 1990

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Archer, David ; Costello, Patrick

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415845661
ISBN 13 
9780415845663
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232