The Literacy Campaign in Scotland, 1560–1803

‘Be Media Smart’ is an Irish public awareness campaign calling on people of all ages to ‘Be Media Smart’ and ‘Stop, Think, and Check’ that information they see, read or hear across any media platform is accurate and reliable. This national media literacy campaign was aimed at enhancing people’s understanding of, and engagement with, media, while also empowering them with the skills to evaluate content across all platforms.

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Malavika Karlekar (ed.). Paradigms of Learning: The Total Literacy Campaign in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2004. 356 pages. Paperback. Indian Rupees 375.00.

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v42i2pp.167-169 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 167-169

Author(s):

Samina Nazli

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Human Development ◽

Adult Literacy ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

New Delhi ◽

Least Developed Countries ◽

Literacy Campaign ◽

The Pacific ◽

Sub Saharan

Raising the standards of literacy in the developing world has been a major goal of the less developed countries since most of them became independent in the process of decolonisation that followed World War II. The Human Development Report 2004, brought out by the United Nations Development Programme lists some major improvements in increasing literacy levels of a number of countries between the year 1990 and 2002. For example, low human development countries like Togo increased their adult literacy rates from 44.2 percent in 1990 to 59.6 percent in 2002. Congo saw an increase in its literacy rate for the same period from 67.1 percent to 82.8 percent. The rates for Uganda, Kenya, Yemen, and Nigeria are 56.1 percent and 68.9 percent, 70.8 percent and 84.3 percent, 32.7 percent and 49.0 percent, and 48.7 percent and 68.8 percent respectively. If one examines the breakdown by region, the least developed countries as a group saw an increase in their adult literacy rates from 43.0 percent to 52.5 percent, the Arab states from 50.8 percent to 63.3 percent, South Asia from 47.0 percent to 57.6 percent, Sub-Saharan Africa from 50.8 percent to 63.2 percent and East Asia and the Pacific from 79.8 percent to 90.3 percent. If we look at the increase in the levels of literacy from the perspective of medium human development and low human development, the figures are 71.8 percent and 80.4 percent, and 42.5 percent and 54.3 percent, respectively.

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The Literacy Campaign

The Cuba Reader ◽

10.1515/9781478004561-075 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 363-367

Keyword(s):

Literacy Campaign

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The 1961 National Cuban Literacy Campaign

National Literacy Campaigns and Movements ◽

10.4324/9781315125077-8 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 173-196

Author(s):

Marvin Leiner

Keyword(s):

Literacy Campaign

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Alfabeticemos! Let’s Teach Literacy!

Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children ◽

10.5744/florida/9781683401551.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 63-104

Author(s):

Deborah Shnookal

Keyword(s):

Education Reform ◽

Political Culture ◽

Participatory Democracy ◽

Next Generation ◽

Literacy Campaign ◽

Parents And Children ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact ◽

Hearts And Minds

The Cuban revolutionary government prioritized education reform as the key to lifting the country out of underdevelopment and creating a new political culture of participatory democracy, epitomized by the 1961 literacy campaign. Fidel Castro’s opponents, however, regarded this campaign as evidence of the “communist indoctrination” by the government of young Cubans and were therefore determined to “save” as many children as possible by sending them to Miami until Castro was ousted. This chapter takes a detailed look at how the battle for the hearts and minds of the next generation unfolded with the mobilization of 100,000 teenagers as literacy brigadistas to teach in the mountains and remote parts of the island. It examines the objectives of the campaign, the recruitment propaganda used to mobilize the Conrado Benítez brigades, how the campaign affected relations between parents and children, and the impact that participation in the campaign had on a generation of revolutionary youth.

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