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Why 800 Millions Still Cannot Read or Write: EWLP Report Makes Critical Assessment
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Convergence, 1975
The UNESCO publication "Final Global Evaluation Report of the Experimental World Literacy Programme (EWLP): Lessons Learned from 11 Projects" is examined. The concept of functionality (emphasising economic development over political, cultural, and social development) was found to be unsuccessful. (LH)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy, Government Role
A Question of Participation: Action and Research in the New Communities Project
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Fordham, Paul; And Others – Convergence, 1975
The New Communities Project is an attempt to involve the majority socioeconomic groups of British society in adult education. (AG)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Demography, Participation
A Swedish Outreach to Adult Education and the Disadvantaged. An Interim Report
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Convergence, 1974
Reporting on the second year of Sweden's experimental adult education program inititated in 1970, the article discusses the program's progress in reaching adults with inadequate education who, for geographic, economic, social, and psychological reasons, did not participate in adult education. (MW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries