The Literacy Project - Caribbean, Latin America, North America.
Through a variety of media and documentation methodologies, this initiative communicates the experiences of men and women who have taught literacy to others, worked to implement literacy programmes, or struggled to achieve literacy themselves. The volunteer-run oral history and research project centres around a website that collects, shares, and archives personal testimonies about literacy in the Americas. Organisers are in the process of exploring the history of literacy campaigns and literacy programmes throughout the Americas, with a special focus on the intersection of race, class, and gender as it relates to literacy.
Organisers are currently collecting stories on literacy theory and history, past or current literacy teachers, and from those who became (or are currently becoming) literate as adults.
This includes:
» Paolo Friere’s work in Brazil-Philosophy, methodology and implementation.
» The Freedom Schools of the US Civil Rights Movement.
» The Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961
» Literacy and Illiteracy in the US today
» Mission Robinson in Venezuela
» Bolivia
» Nicaragua
» Ecuador
The Literacy Project is an almost entirely volunteer endeavor, with our small funds going to direct expenses on our projects. To volunteer go here
Contact: info@theliteracyproject.org