Training of Adult Educators and Literacy Workers: Report of the National Workshop, Madras, May 4-7, 1978

Abstract

The announcement of the National Adult Education Programme, with the publication of the first Policy Statement in 1977, was an occasion of tremendous importance to adult educators, and to India. For the first time a Union Government was making adult education a top priority, and this itself was of great importance, for at last the priorities proclaimed in the Constitution were receiving due political recognition. But even more impressive was the fact that the basic assumptions of the policy displayed a completely new attitude to the people and to education, an attitude which is difficult to find among governing classes anywhere in the world. These assumptions are worth re-stating here.