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| Autor/in | Bhola, H. S. |
|---|---|
| Titel | A Policy Analysis of Adult Literacy Education in India: Across the Two National Policy Reviews of 1968 and 1986. |
| Quelle | (1988), (36 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Adult Basic Education; Adult Literacy; Adult Programs; Change Strategies; Comparative Analysis; Economic Factors; Economic Opportunities; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Literacy Education; Social Stratification; Socioeconomic Influences; India |
| Abstract | There have been few, if any, significant changes in educational policy regarding the provision of adult literacy education in India over the past two decades. The changes that have taken place in India's adult literacy programs have occurred in the realm of technology rather than ideology, thereby supporting a continuity in the existing distributions of economic, social, and political goods within the nation. India's present cultural and political climate have resulted in an educational policy that is functionalist in the sense of being geared to provide the labor force necessary to keep the system going and populist in the sense of being geared toward gaining the votes necessary to win elections. This in turn has translated into greater investments in higher education and proportionally less in constitutionally mandated universalization of elementary education. The most important official confirmation of the need for expanding adult education services in India came in the form of the National Policy Resolution of 1968. The first important initiative in adult education--the National Adult Education Program (NAEP)--was not established until 1978. It defined education as literacy, functionality, and conscientization, and although its structures were eventually established, they did not always function effectively. When Indira Gandhi returned to power in 1980, the program was renamed (it was now simply called the AEP) and expanded from a 10-month to a 3-year program with emphasis on health, family planning, and functional progams. Unfortunately, the AEP was not extremely successful either. The main thrust of the new National Program of Adult Education (established in 1986) is like its predecessors in that its main thrust is efficiency rather than equity and its general mode is technocratic. (MN) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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