Robert Arnove

National Literacy Campaigns and Movements

Historical and Comparative Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Major campaigns to raise levels of literacy have taken place for centuries and share many common elements. This volume focuses on literacy movements from the past, including those of Reformation Germany, early modern Sweden and Scotland, nineteenth-century United States, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia and the Soviet Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781412807616
• ISBN-10: 1412807611
• Artikelnr.: 23335699

Autorenporträt

Jose Carlos Chiaramonte

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Chapter Introduction
Chapter 2 Literacy Drives in Preindustrial Germany
Chapter 3 The Literacy Campaign in Scotland
1560-1803
Chapter 4 Literacy Campaigns in Sweden
Chapter 5 The Anatomy of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century United States
Chapter 6 Russian Literacy Campaigns
1861-1939
Chapter 7 Literacy Movements in Modern China
Chapter 8 The 1961 National Cuban Literacy Campaign
Chapter 9 The Experimental World Literacy Program: A Unique International Effort Revisited
Chapter 10 Tanzania's Literacy Campaign in Historical-Structural Perspective
Chapter 11 Adult Literacy for Development in India: An Analysis of Policy and Performance
Chapter 12 The 1980 Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade
Chapter 13 Adult Literacy Policy in Industrialized Countries
Index