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| Autor/inn/en | Dionne, Hughes; Horth, Raynald |
|---|---|
| Titel | Challenges of Literacy & Development in Rural Quebec. Chapter 17. |
| Quelle | (1994), (21 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Adult Education; Community Action; Community Development; Consciousness Raising; Foreign Countries; Functional Literacy; Identification (Psychology); Literacy Education; Popular Education; Rural Areas; Rural Development; Rural Education; Small Towns; Canada |
| Abstract | Nearly half of Quebec's municipalities have fewer than 800 inhabitants and are struggling with conditions of economic decline, outmigration of youth, and political marginalization. In 1991, a regional coalition called Coalition Urgence Rurale was formed in the Lower Saint Lawrence area to support initiatives that promote community empowerment, maintain community services (including schools), and enhance rural identity. The movement aims to develop a social agenda based on a contemporary redefinition of rurality. The rapid collapse of rural social and cultural structures and their replacement with a national technocratic system of production and consumption has meant that villagers are losing mastery and knowledge of the tools they need for local development. Individuals are becoming functionally illiterate in the sense of losing all social and cultural guideposts to the system in which they live. Local chapters of the coalition use consciousness-raising strategies and community educational activities to bolster developmental actions and strengthen often marginalized local identities. In the village of Saint Paul de la Croix, literacy education used the project method and the collective life stories approach. Participants regularly discussed topics related to local history, community life, and future possibilities. The discussions became the basis for a book that covered all discussion topics and expressed participants' pride, identity, and determination to stay in their community. By publicizing its discussions, the group helped to expand the village's growing sense of community. The renewal of rural communities and of basic education is bound up with reinventing social ties and human relationships to the land. (Contains 21 references and notes.) (SV) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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