ABSTRACT
The second PNA exercise looked at the local literacies which people were aware of, and, though limited, it was reasonably successful. It provided us with an outline training programme based on a series of themes and broken down into specific tasks. Areas such as helping children with homework and home/school literacy, church literacy, Bible and hymn sheet reading, pension and governmental literacies and market literacy provided us with natural groupings for a theme-based curriculum. Constructing a programme that had a broader adult education base gave scope for discussion of alternative belief systems, visits to a local mosque and synagogue, assertion training around pension pay-out issues, and prevented the programme from assuming a more narrow functional approach. People enjoyed the outings, saw and learned things about their own locality that they had never had the opportunity to see before and in many ways were beginning to question things for the first time in their lives.
