Education in Nicaragua: What Difference Can a Revolution Make?.

Collins, Sheila

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Publication Date: 1987

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Education in Nicaragua: What Difference Can a Revolution Make?

Collins, Sheila

Social Policy, v18 n2 p47-53 Fall 1987

To stimulate development in Nicaragua it was necessary for the Sandinistas to raise the education level of its populace. This was accomplished through a national literacy crusade which decreased the illiteracy rate by 37.1 per cent. The crusade showed the importance of incorporating popular organizations into the process of change. (VM)

Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Democratic Values, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Change, Illiteracy, Literacy Education, Participative Decision Making, Public Policy, Social Change, Social Organizations

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Nicaragua

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