Presentación sobre la cruzada de Alfabetización de Nicaragua, en inglés.
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The Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade of 1980
The Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade of 1980Robert F.
Arnove
Scope of the campaignUnprecedented.50% to 15% within a period of
9 months.Sandinista Literacy Units (UAS*).The Peoples Literacy Army
(65thou).Peoples Literacy Teachers (35thou).+225,000 literate
adults volunteers.Exposed to dangers.
Mass OrganizationCuban model.
Mass organization.
Role of women.
Role of teachers.
Preparation and PedagogyPreparation to survive.Saturday
workshops.Puo en alto.Freire.La Revolucin Criticism.Ideology.
OutcomesCertainly what is taught is not necessarily what is
learned. (p.415)Opposition to the content of the materialsOutright
resistance to the political contentOther factorsTraditional
teacher-directed pedagogySymbol of justiceGreatest transformation
of values and behaviorsLiberation of womenStrengthening of mass
organization
ConnectionsFreireDewey
DeCastell and Luke:models of literacy instruction have always
been derived from concrete historical circumstances. Vygostky: ()
instruction must be oriented toward the future, not the past.
Section III. (Chapter6)
