National Literacy Organizations Celebrate International Literacy Day

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
International Literacy ◽  
National Literacy

scholarly journals Back to the Future?: Timor-Leste, Cuba and the return of the mass literacy campaign

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Boughton
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Literacy Campaign ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
International Literacy ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
National Literacy ◽  
National Literacy Campaign

In December 2005, eleven Cuban educational advisers arrived in Timor-Leste to begin work on a national literacy campaign. Adapting the program known in Latin America as Yo, Sí Puedo (Yes I Can), the Cubans trained over 400 local tutors to run classes in every part of the country, using a method they call ‘alphanumeric’, delivered via audiovisual technology. The campaign was launched in March 2007, and the first classes began in June of that year. By September 2010, three years later, over 70,000 adults, over one fifth of the total illiterate population, had successfully completed a thirteen week basic literacy course. Drawing on original research undertaken in Timor-Leste between 2004 and 2009, followed by further investigations in May 2010 in Havana, Cuba, this paper describes the Timor-Leste campaign, locating it within the historical commitment of the country’s independence movement to adult literacy, and the broader context of Cuba’s international literacy work.

"Nice things get said": corpus evidence and the National Literacy Strategy

Literacy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Sealey ◽  
Paul Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Strategy ◽  
National Literacy

scholarly journals 1990, International Literacy Year

1970 ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Member States ◽  
International Literacy ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Year 2000

The moment the United Nations declared 1990 as International Literacy Year, the international literacy movement began to consider how the year could strenghten the movement in every corner of the world. The U.N. plan of action is to "help member states in all regions to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000".

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