Full Description
This book explores the relations between literacy and "people's power" in the context of Mozambique's project of socialist construction. It probes the tensions between literacy as a tool for grassroots democracy versus literacy as a tool for mobilizing at the base for top-down initiatives.
Contents
Preface -- Literacy: People's Power/Assimilation of a Social Order -- The World of Workplace Literacy -- The Colonial State as Educator -- "Schooling": Path from Indigenous to Assimilated? -- Literacy, Popular State and People's Power -- Time for "Schooling" at CIM -- Classrooms: Spaces for Regulated Communication(s) -- Power Differentiation in the CIM "Village" -- Literacy and the Practice of Democracy
