ABSTRACT
The literacy activities monitored included the training courses for the voluntary teachers, the activities to launch the school year, the weekly functioning of classes including both organizational and pedagogical aspects, the system of evaluation, the incentives for both learners and teachers and the broader process of mobilization for literacy. During 1984, the work in literacy centres included more pedagogical support. This included experimentation with teaching methods in response to problems identified in the centres monitored during 1983. Literacy was still too narrowly cast as a set of technical skills without any appreciation of how language and schooling had to do with taking on a whole social order. The rate of illiteracy within the factory complex had been reduced from 57 percent in 1975 to less than 6 percent ten years later. From 1981 to 1986, 309 people had passed the literacy exam with another 113 people going on to complete basic primary schooling.
