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This collection of essays reflects the desire and determination guiding many practitioners and researchers as they work together in more meaningful, relevant ways for literacy. It presents three series of dialogues in which a scholar works with a practitioner, or community leader, on a struggle toward teaching, learning, and literacy.

Literacy. --- Literacy programs.

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This important volume takes stock of the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC), assessing both its successes and failures in order to draw lessons for the future. Based on detailed first-hand evaluations of the TLC in six districts located in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand and Rajasthan, it adopts a fresh approach using in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions. The researchers discuss not only outcomes but also the processes and dynamics, both organizational and interpersonal, that either facilitated or hampered the teaching-learning situation. They take account of the di

Literacy programs --- Literacy --- Literacy campaigns --- National literacy campaigns --- National literacy programs --- Reading programs (Literacy) --- Government policy

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"In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define literacy not as a basic skill but as a rich, broadly interactive human behavior: the ability to engage in a conversation carried on, framed by, or enriched through written symbols. Eli Goldblatt takes us to after-school literacy programs, community arts centers, and urban farms in the city of Philadelphia, while David Jolliffe explores learning in a Latinx youth theater troupe, a performance based on the words of men on death row, and long-term cooperation with a rural health care provider in Arkansas. As different as urban and rural settings can be-and as beset as they both are with the challenges of historical racism and economic discrimination-the authors see much to encourage both geographical communities to fight for positive change"--

Rural youth --- Rural youth --- Urban youth --- Urban youth --- Literacy programs --- Literacy programs --- Education --- Education --- Education --- Education --- Social aspects --- Social aspects

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Comparative education --- Literacy --- -Literacy programs --- -Literacy campaigns --- National literacy campaigns --- National literacy programs --- Reading programs (Literacy) --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Education, Comparative --- Cross-cultural studies --- History --- Government policy --- -Cross-cultural studies --- Literacy programs --- Literacy campaigns