On the social meanings inherent in literacy campaigns

• Tuomas Takala Jyväskylän yliopisto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33336/aik.96669

Abstract

Based on the documentary material dealing with literacy campaigns, the article examines the types of meanings inherent when defining illiteracy as a social problem. ln doing so, the author questions the overall ideology proposed in the material studied. ln addition, he deals with the possible emancipatory role of literacy in the conditions prevailing in developing countries.