ABSTRACT
The present chapter provides information regarding the profiles of the female participants in Moroccan adult literacy programs and elucidates the causes of their childhood illiteracy and obstacles to their effective participation in the literacy courses. As explained in chapter 4, this is done through the analysis of two interviews addressed to 204 current participants and seventy-five drop-outs respectively. The analysis of data collected from both interviews is done in three main sections. The first section is devoted to a description of the personal, educational, linguistic and socio-economic characteristics of the current learners. The second section is concerned with the causes of women’s childhood illiteracy. More specifically, it provides data on the nonschooling of the respondents and their dropping-out of the primary school. This section also identifies the reasons for their absenteeism, and dropping-out of the literacy courses. In the last section, the data are summarized and discussed.
