A Turning Point for Literacy

Preface

Working Documents

Theme 1. Balance and Teachings of Ten Years of Literacy Work

Document 1 Literacy in the World Since the 1965 Teheran Conference: Shortcomings, Achievements, Tendencies

Document 2 Experimental World Literacy Program Report and Synthesis of Evaluation

Theme 2. Functionalities of Literacy

Document 3 Functionalities of Literacy

Document 4 Literacy Training and Mass Education for Development

Document 5 Literacy, Education and Schooling - for what?

Theme 3. Changes in the Living Conditions and in the Social Structures as a Requisite of Literacy Undertakings

Document 6 Functional Literacy and Educational Revolution (Work Accomplished and Prospects for Further Action)

Document 7 Literacy Training and Revolution: The Vietnamese Experience

Document 8 ALFIN, an Experiment in Adult Literacy Training in a Society in Transition: Peru

Document 9 Literacy: For Reading the Word or the World?

Theme 4. Innovative Role of Literacy Experiments and their Integration into the Global Educational Process

Document 10 Learner-centered Innovations in Literacy Work

Document 11 Are Adult Literacy Programs Neutral?

Document 12 On the Way to the Learning Society

Document 13 Literacy and Industrialization - The Dispossession of Speech

Document 14 Literacy and the Dialog between Civilizations

Final Report of the International Symposium for Literacy

1. Background

2. Proceedings of the Symposium

3. Discussion of the Themes of the Symposium

4. Drafting and Approval of the Declaration of Persepolis

5. Annexes

1. List of Participants

2. Opening Address

3. Working Documents

4. Declaration of Persepolis

5. Closing Speech

Other Documents