Toward World Literacy

Toward World Literacy PDF

Author: Frank C. Laubach

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780868510460

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This book describes teaching materials, tells how to organise successful rural or urban campaigns and suggests training programmes for literacy workers and it also explains how to prepare interesting reading matter for new literates.

Teaching the World to Read

Teaching the World to Read PDF

Author: Frank Charles Laubach

Publisher:

Published: 2013-02

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781614274063

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2013 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Inhis book "Teaching the World to Read" you'll find explained Laubach's famed literacy program. Frank Laubach was sponsored to go to many countries and nations that had no written orthography for their spoken languages. He analyzed hitherto-unknown tribal sounds and their styles of speech with the goal of providing an alphabet for each tribe or nation. Then he would train teachers or leaders who soon taught their people how to read. He was known as "Apostle to illiterates." His program was called "Each One Teach one." A mystic and intellectual, he spent 40 years of his life empowering millions of the poorest, disenfranchised people in third world countries.

Vernacular Literacy

Vernacular Literacy PDF

Author: International Group for the Study of Language Standardization and the Vernacularization of Literacy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780198236351

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Illiteracy problems are worldwide, and growing. Political and economic factors are often in conflict over which language to use for basic education and how it should be taught. There is increasing pressure on the resources available for using literacy in coping with the rapid populationincrease, the spread of disease, and poor development.The editors and contributors to this volume are members of The International Group for the Study of Language Standardization and the Vernacularization of Literacy (IGLSVL), with unrivalled direct personal experience of literacy and language problems in the second half of the twentieth century. Thecontributors take the UNESCO publication, The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education, as their starting point. Published in 1953, this work was optimistic about the future of literacy. The contributors assess the nature and significance of the events that have taken place since then, providing aglobal overview. The discussions are supported by case-studies of campaigns to promote vernacular languages and examples of how people relate to their languages in different cultures. Most importantly, they question traditional notions of, and provide a non-Western perspective on, the uses and valueof literacy.