Essays about: "Adult literacy"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 20 essays containing the words Adult literacy.

1. 16. Motives for Literacy : an investigation of adult illiterate students' motives for becoming literate.

   University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

   Author : Agneta Jonasson; [2012]
   Keywords : motives; motivation; illiterate; Swedish as a second language; gender; age; SFI;

   Abstract : The aim for this study was to investigate adult illiterate students’ motives for becoming literate. The study was conducted in an adult education institution in Sweden where I interviewed four participants learning how to read and write in a second language. READ MORE

3. 17. Determinants of Literacy in Africa - A panel data study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Martin Pehrsson; [2012]
   Keywords : Adult literacy; Africa; panel data study; Colonial background; Human-capital theory; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Adult literacy is often taken for granted in industrialized countries. Developing countries still struggles with a large portion of their population not being able to read or taking active part in the productive sector. The African continent have the highest numbers of illiteracy. READ MORE

4. 18. "[...] No One Teaches Another, Nor Anyone is Self-Taught. People Teach Each Other, Mediated by the World" (Freire, 1972:53). Transformative Adult Learning in New Social Movement. A Case Study from South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Marta Cubajevaite; [2011]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : New social movements in South Africa could play a prominent role in mobilizing the communities to reflect critically and address the repercussions of the neo-liberal agenda, i.e. perpetuating the exclusion of under-educated adults and provision of poor quality education. READ MORE

5. 19. Getting one step ahead in life. A study of an adult literacy programme in Northern Malawi

   University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan

   Author : Hanna Appelquist; Therése Björkman; [2010]
   Keywords : literacy; development; malawi; poverty reduction; MFS;

   Abstract : The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to study the connection between literacy and development and poverty reduction in a third world country. The study is based on Mothers’ Union Literacy and Development Programme (MULDP) in Malawi, where it examines what difference literacy makes in the learners of MULDPs lives and what meaning literacy has for them. READ MORE

6. 20. Reading culture and literacy in Uganda. The case of the “Children’s Reading Tent”

   University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan

   Author : Anna Jönsson; Josefin Olsson; [2008]
   Keywords : children; literacy; reading culture; bicultural mediation; bicultural situation; storytelling; oral culture; uganda;

   Abstract : The aim of our thesis is to study the two concepts “reading culture” and “literacy” in the context of Uganda. We base our study on the project the Children’s Reading Tent. We examine these two concepts in relation to the people working with the Children’s Reading Tent and the participating children. READ MORE