After literacy, what next? The challenge of sustaining a literate environment in Botswana

Mulindwa, Gertrude Kayaga Legwaila, Marty I.

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6706)

Abstract:

Botswana's education policy, advocates for the Department of Non-Formal Education to `...give greater priority to post-literacy activities, particularly the development of a literate environment...' This is to address the question `After literacy, what next ?', which was often asked by people who had successfully completed the Botswana National Literacy Programme in the early 1980s when it had just began. The question summed up their frustrations and anxiety at having acquired what many considered to be new survival skills and seeing their lives not changing for the better. They had been made to understand that once they possessed reading, writing and numeracy skills, their lives would certainly improve. They were instead discovering that without a sustainable post-literacy programme this was unlikely to happen.

Creation: 2000
Keywords: Africa ; Países en desarrollo ; Bibliotecas

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