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Short Summary
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| Title |
Why Eat Green Cucumbers at the Time of Dying:
Women's Literacy and Development in Nepal |
| Author |
Robinson-Pant, A. |
| Publication
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July 2000 |
| Publisher |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) Institute of Education |
| Donor |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) |
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Short Summary |
Why should people take on new literacy practices
when they feel they are able to communicate adequately? Is 'traditional'
literacy the key to women's empowerment? In Nepal, as elsewhere, there
has been an explosion of literacy programmes due to the popular perception
that this is the case. This report questions whether such programmes
meet women's needs from the point of view of participants. The study
looks at two non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Nepal and shows
how understanding the social and cultural context of learning is generally
more significant in terms of empowerment than the end result, namely
literacy. The report sets out the background of literacy education
in development and applies it to the context on Nepal. Readers are
invited to reflect on the report in the light of their own experiences
of literacy and, in keeping with recent work on literacy, it asks
us to think about the role of literacy educators. It also explores
how there are a number of different 'literacies' - rather than one
literacy which 'illiterate' people are supposed to achieve. Literacy
in the ways that most school children understand the term may not
be relevant to groups such as older rural women. The study aims to
bring together participants, policy makers and fieldworkers and provides
recommendations on using research to inform the planning of literacy
programmes. |
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