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Literacy for citizenship : gender and grassroots dynamics in Brazil

Title
  1. Literacy for citizenship : gender and grassroots dynamics in Brazil / Nelly P. Stromquist.
Published by
  1. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Author
  1. Stromquist, Nelly P.

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Description
  1. xiii, 248 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. This book explores the involvement of nineteen women in an emancipatory literacy program conducted under the administration of Paulo Freire in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study presents the classroom experiences of these women and the psychological, cognitive, and behavioral changes they undergo over a three-year period. Their low limited acquisition of literacy and their limited reading and writing practices are explored in the context of their circumscribed environment of poverty, living in families and societies that place definite boundaries and expectations regarding the everyday tasks they must perform. The analysis of the women's individual experiences is linked to a political and structural inquiry into the grassroots groups and the political party implementing the literacy program. In this way, contradictions, ambiguities, and antagonisms within and among social forces regarding literacy for social change are made transparent.
  2. Literacy acquisition is shown to be a process fraught with multiple exogenous demands that distance these women from the constant exposure to print required for literacy competence.
Series statement
  1. SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning
Uniform title
  1. SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1989-1993
  2. Literacy programs > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Case studies
  3. Women > Education > Social aspects > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Case studies
  4. Popular education > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Case studies
  5. Literacy programs
  6. Popular education
  7. Women > Education > Social aspects
  8. Alphabetisierung
  9. Sozialarbeit
  10. Fallstudiensammlung
  11. Brazil > São Paulo (State)
  12. Brasilien
Genre/Form
  1. Case studies.
Contents
  1. I. Development, Literacy, and Women -- II. MOVA as a State-Civil Society Partnership -- III. Analytical and Methodological Considerations -- IV. Characteristics of Women Students in Literacy Programs -- V. The Classroom Experience in Literacy -- VI. Outcomes from Literacy -- VII. The Civil Society-State Connection -- VIII. MOVA through a Feminist Lens -- IX. Drawing Conclusions.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243) and index.