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Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Literacy Lessons: Illiteracy and educational wastage in Latin America
Author: Illiteracy and Educational Wastage in Latin America
Author: Juan Carlos TedescoPublisher: Geneva : Unesco : International Bureau of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Literacy in Latin America
Author: Miguel Soler RocaPublisher: Geneva : Unesco : International Bureau of Education
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Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Literacy Lessons: Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Literacy Lessons: Literacy in Latin America
Author: The Challenge of Illiteracy
Author: Zaghloul MorsyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113558401X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
According to UNESCO's statistics, the number of illiterates in the world is verging on one million. A conservative estimate of the number of children who have no access to schooling brings that figure to more than one hundred million. School failure, brought about by overcrowding, poor facilities, unqualified teachers, and lack of materials only adds to the problem. The authors in this volume cover the many facets of the fight for literacy.
Resources in Education
Author: Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America
Author: Judy KalmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136664297
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and other paradigms, the contributors identify both convergent and divergent literacy and numeracy issues within the region as well as beyond the Latin American context. Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America moves the field forward by bringing LALNS into wider focus and helping readers to understand the synergy with work from other perspectives and from other parts of the world and the implications for theory and practice. A lack of translated work until now between Latin America and, in particular, the UK, US, and Europe, has meant that such important overlaps between areas of study have gone unappreciated. In this way this volume is the first of its kind, a significant and original contribution to the field.
Schooling for Success
Author: Laura RandallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315292874
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The link between economic development and education in Latin America is generally well-recognized. A literate and educated work force is the largest single factor in explaining economic growth. In this study, the editors and contributors survey the various elementary educational systems to investigate the reasons behind the failure of schools to retain students in elementary grades. A group of scholars looks at the current state of education in four countries: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, with a view to designing more effective programs for reducing the dropout and grade repetition rates. For each country studied, there is an overview of the school system, teacher training and attitudes, centralized and decentralized planning, curriculum development, and psychological and environmental issues that contribute to school dropout.
Literacy and Power
Author: David ArcherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134069189
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
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