These four issues of the quarterly publication of the Saskatchewan Literacy Network in Canada are each devoted to a separate aspect of literacy and literacy education. In addition to an editorial and series of articles on the issue topic, each issue includes book reviews and network news. Some issues also include interviews and annotated…

A functional literacy program is not only an instructional problem but it must involve a social change strategy as well. The methodological problem lies in the integration of literacy with vocational knowledge, of the verbal with the teaching of manual skills, and of the core content with supporting program content. (EB)

Reports on a study of a pre-cooperative (the Sidi Saad pre-cooperative, Province of Tunis) as an environment in which a functional literacy program, integrated with socioeconomic development, was to be developed. (EB)

A scientific framework to a global and comprehensive approach to functional literacy includes a situational analysis as a foundation for goal-setting and program elaboration. The four dimensions of the situation are: existing societal organizations, value system, human needs and resources, and new change factors. (EB)

In Alabama, 98 statewide television programs were offered using the Laubach method and supplementary group discussion. (PT)

A statewide concentrated literacy campaign using Operation Alphabet telecasts was launched in Florida in 1963. This article relates the history of the campaign, describes Operation Alphabet, and evaluates some of the instructional procedures used. (PT)

The planning of a literacy program for youth and marginal adults, development of instructional materials and techniques, and its implementation are discussed in this article. (PT)

The government of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea is fully committed to education at the primary through the tertiary levels. The main thrust in adult literacy work is coming from the Summer Institute of Linguistics and various Christian mission groups. The work is hampered by a lack of national awareness, prevalence of disease, high costs,…

In the Amazonian jungle of Peru 240 Indian leaders representing 20 different South American Indian language groups are successfully teaching their own people to read and write, first in their mother tongue and then in Spanish. (Author/EB)

The first detailed survey made in the field of adult literacy in Kenya, undertaken at the request of the Board of Adult Education. (EB)

A Supreme Emergency Law launched the National Campaign Against Illiteracy in Mexico in 1944; it served to awaken the public conscience to this enormous social problem. Now literacy education is seen as a basis on which to create a higher cultural life. (EB)

The fight against illiteracy in Brazil can be considered as actually institutionalized by the Ministry of Education and Culture, and seems about to take on the character of a very determined national effort. (EB)

The national campaign for literacy in Tunisia provides television broadcasts completed by radio programs. Adults listening to the broadcasts belong to organized centers, with qualified instructors, to semi-organized centers in the hands of national organizations, or to family centers providing instructional materials. (EB)

Literacy House is an institution with an integrated program to promote functional literacy and to strengthen the movement of adult education in India, especially in rural areas. It is primarily a training center where new methods are thought out, tried, tested, developed and shared with agencies in the field. (EB)

Because of lack of funds and the failure of the mass literacy campaign, the government of Indonesia has concentrated on the consolidation of literacy by organizing reading groups of neo-literates. Reading materials are obtained from all technical departments concerned with rural development. (EB)