Functional Literacy for Rural Development: Field Studies of Three Rural Functional Literacy Projects

Abstract

The studies highlight both the strong and weak points in each project; the degree to which the project have conformed to the conceptual frame-work envisaged by the Programme; types of field problems encountered and measures taken or proposed, to overcome the difficulties. It is hoped that the experiences embodied in these field-studies would be fruitfully shared not only by hundreds of functionaries engaged in the implementation of adult education projects, but also by all those interested in this big national enterprise of bringing functional education at the doors of a hundred million illiterate persons : mostly the rural poor, the women, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and other weaker and deprived sections of society.