World Literacy Resources

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This page is dedicated to collecting resources about adult literacy education and nonformal education at the global level.
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One good place to start when researching world literacy is Wikipedia, which has a broad summary of the spread of literacy across the globe. [1]
Others are listed below.

Collections

  • UNESCO Education - Literacy Portal

http://tinyurl.com/dwrk3
This relatively new Web site has a fairly good collection of adult literacy related papers and project descriptions in its nonformal education section.

  • Infed

This is a web site devoted to informal education http://www.infed.org Includes "The Encylopedia of Informal Education" http://www.infed.org/encyclopaedia.htm

Reports

  • Adult Education Participation in North America: International Perspectives

http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/89-574-XIE/89-574-XIE98001.pdf

  • Adult Literacy in the Third World - A Review of Trends a Decade Later

http://www.adeanet.org/wgnfe/publications/lind.pdf

  • International Perspectives on Adult Education (ERIC Trends and Alert)

http://www.calpro-online.org/ERIC/docgen.asp?tbl=tia&ID=136

  • Teaching Adults to Read: The World Education Approach to Adult Literacy Program Design

http://www.worlded.org/docs/publications/teaching_adults_to_read.pdf Reviews World Education adult literacy projects in Nepal, Mali and Guinea.