ABSTRACT
The present chapter provides a historical description of the planning and organization of adult literacy campaigns and programs that were carried out in Morocco from Independence in 1956 to the year 2000. The chapter is divided into three parts. The first part relates the governments efforts to combat illiteracy since Independence to the celebration of the international year in 1990. The second part deals with the new directions that have taken place in Moroccan adult literacy programs and campaigns since the celebration of the international literacy year to the publication of The National Charter of Education and Training in 1999. The last part investigates the place of adult literacy in the Charter and in the education decade (200-2010) that was launched by King Mohammed VI in September 2000. Related information is taken from documents supplied by the Ministry of National Education, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Literacy Directorate, and the Charter.
